In a ceremony held on Wednesday (11/1), Tanac inaugurated a unit designed to be its base of forestry operations. Event was attended by Mayor Paula Mascarenhas, shareholders and board of Directors of Tanac, as well as partners and employees
Tanac has just inaugurated a new unit. Designed to be the base of the company’s Forestry Operations, the new operation located in Pelotas (RS), on Highway BR 116. The inauguration took place this Wednesday (11/1) and was attended by Mayor Paula Mascarenhas; the State Secretary of Environment, Luiz Henrique Viana; the Planning Manager of the Port of RS, Fernando Estima; representatives of Agaflor, Ageflor, partners, representatives of Tanac´s shareholder family holdings, forestry partners, as well as the company’s Executive Board, leaders, and employees.
At the opening of the ceremony, Tanac´s CEO, João Carlos Ronchel Soares said that the new unit marks the consolidation of Tanac’s investments in Forestry Operations, one of the main strategic pillars of the company’s 2025 Agenda.
According to him, the operation will enable the centralization of the management of Forest Operations, facilitating and speeding up decision-making processes, in addition to giving greater proximity of the forest team to the main forest assets, located in the southern half of the state. The structure will also open the opportunity for the creation of a wood logging area, implementation of a Black Wattle tree peel operation, as well as a Central Workshop for the maintenance of forest equipment.
“We want Pelotas to be our main base of Forestry Operations, centralizing the entire management team and supervision of forest assets, concentrating the areas of Forestry, Harvesting, Forest Planning, Central Workshop, Maintenance and Logistics”, comments Soares.
According to him, the new unit will act to stimulate the production of Black Wattle in Rio Grande do Sul, increasing the planted area by 7,000 hectares per year. He also pointed out that the raw material of the tree feeds three branches of the company’s green business. From the bark, tannin is produced, used in industries, from tannery, through chemicals, to animal nutrition. From wood, chip is produced, used in the production of pulp and paper, 100% production exported to Europe and Asia, and pellets – biomass sold for the generation of thermoelectric energy in England.
“The Pelotas unit will be our growth platform to dominate the Forest Base of Black Wattle in the State of Rio Grande do Sul and Brazil, will be the catalyst for productivity improvements in forestry, harvesting and maintenance processes and will help us diversify the cultivation of forest species.”
The unit will also contribute to society in reducing the emission of greenhouse gases, with the implementation of investments in planting and sustainable management, further increasing the volume of carbon capture.
“75 years ago, when the first machines from Sweden arrived in Rio Grande do Sul, those responsible for the project, including my great-grandfather, already knew that Black Wattle was the best raw material in the world to produce tannins for leather tanning. They also had a notion that Rio Grande do Sul was the best place in the world to grow this species of Black Wattle. What they couldn’t see back then and would be proud of today is that what was an industry that essentially produced a commodity was transforming over the decades into an essentially forestry operation. The forest is today the soul and heart of Tanac. And this place that we are opening today lives up to the importance that the forest area has for the organization”, comments Thomas Rosén, member of holding company owner of Tanac Weibulll Participações SA.
For Luiz Fernando Martins e Castro, a holding member who owns Tanac CIA Agrícola São Bento da Esmeralda – SBE, “it is successful to see this project of consolidation of activities in the southern half of the state, because it represents the consolidation of the next steps that we want to take for this company, very focused on the ESG agenda.” Mayor Paula Mascarenhas thanked Tanac’s trust in the government and in all institutions in the city of Pelotas. “We believe in private initiative; we know very well what our role is and that who generates wealth and income is the private sector. And that’s why we always welcome this kind of red-carpet investment. Knowing that with a productive partnership we can grow more and more: the company, for which we root, and the municipality, having its economy leveraged with another important investment like this”.
