New R$ 40 Million Biodiesel Plant Will Start Production in December in the State of Paraná

Cocamar’s Biodiesel Plant Located in Maringá, Paraná, Will Have a Production Capacity of 300 Tons/Day

Cocamar began construction of a new biodiesel plant at its industrial park in Maringá, Paraná, in March of this year. Planned in the strategic planning for the 2020/25 cycle, the plant received investments of R$ 40 million and is expected to start operating in December of this year, producing 300 tons/day. The project of the association aims to organize regional production, receive and process the product, and will start its production on December 15. Read this news: Mato Grosso Has the Largest Number of Biodiesel Plants Operating in the Country. The State Has 17 Units in Large Scale Production

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Some Details About the Biodiesel Unit in Paraná

The construction of the new plant by the Agroindustrial Cooperative in Paraná will be fully automated, allowing it to extract an average of 1,500 tons of soybean oil every day. Valdemar Cremoneis, Cocamar’s industrial executive manager, stated that within the same planning cycle, the increase of 50% in soybean crushing capacity in the industry is expected to rise from 3,000 tons to 4,500 tons. According to him, this way, there will be more raw materials to supply the biodiesel plants and retail oil production.

The cooperative’s business director, Anderson Alves Bertolleti, stated that for the cooperatives, the biodiesel plant in Paraná will be a new business opportunity to add more value to their production. He emphasized that the cooperative is moving towards vertical integration of the soybean complex.

This year, Cocamar Agroindustrial Cooperative is expected to process 1 million tons of grains at its plant, which represents more than half of the 1.7 million tons projected for the 2020/21 harvest.

Cocamar Agroindustrial Cooperative: The company was founded on March 27, 1963, and is located in Maringá, Paraná. Initially, it brought together 46 founders, all coffee producers. The aim is to organize regional production, receive the products, and benefit from them. Over time, the cooperative realized the diversification of its businesses and continued to grow. Today, Cocamar’s plant has over 80 operational units distributed across the states of northern and northwestern Paraná, western São Paulo, and southwestern Mato Grosso do Sul.

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A new Oleoplan biodiesel plant could be installed in the municipality of Tomé-Açu, Pará. The Gaucho company operating in soybean processing and biodiesel production may build its first project in the state, where investments of R$ 148 million are predicted. There is high expectation for the generation of over 50 direct job openings and thousands of indirect positions.

The construction of the new biodiesel plant in Pará was the main topic discussed in a meeting between Oleoplan’s Director of Institutional Relations, Leonardo Botelho Zilio, and the management of the Pará Economic Development Company (Codec), with the presence of the head of the state agency, Lutfala Bitar. During the meeting, the creation of new jobs was mentioned, and the expectation is to generate over 50 direct jobs and thousands indirectly in the state of Pará.

In the meeting, another topic addressed was the installation of a second biodiesel plant in the municipality of Marabá, in the southeastern region of Pará, for which the Pará Economic Development Company (Codec) is primarily responsible for managing the city’s industrial district.