First factory that will produce “green tire” in Amazonas will be inaugurated in 2023

Internalization of the ZFM

The project is part of a social appeal that aims to benefit almost 2,700 riverside residents and generate income for families

Iranduba (AM) – The first factory to produce “green tires” in Amazonas is in the final stage of adjustments. The Rubberon group enterprise is considered by Suframa as one of the main references in the process of internalization of tax incentives in the Manaus Free Trade Zone (ZFM).

The forecast is that the business will be inaugurated by the end of this year, in kilometer 7 of the municipality of Iranduba (25 kilometers from Manaus), driven by a social appeal that foresees benefiting almost 2,700 riverside residents and generating income for the families of the region. location.

The “green tire” is a material that does not harm the environment, as it has ecological characteristics, with a less toxic composition and more energy efficiency, in addition to reducing emissions and generating savings in the use of fuel in vehicles.

A trip to the future factory – built in an area of ​​20,000 square meters – was a result of the visit made by Suframa, earlier this month, to two factories of the Rubberon group, located in the Industrial Pole of Manaus (PIM), and was led by the superintendent of the Autarchy, Bosco Saraiva.

The initiative is part of the group’s expansion planning, which has already invested around BRL 6 million and expects to inject another BRL 5 million to retrofit (modernize) the factory and adapt it to the needs and standards required by the automakers.

“We will have a latex factory here, natural rubber, which will benefit more than 2,600 families in the interior of the State of Amazonas, who live from extractivism, from latex. So, we are literally taking the Manaus Free Trade Zone towards development, employment and income in the countryside. I venture to say that this will be the first production of green tires in all of Brazil, with zero chemical components, whose production will be delivered to Michelin, one of the world leaders in the manufacture and sale of tires. A beautiful interiorization project that should serve as a basis for the process of interiorization of incentives in the Manaus Free Trade Zone”,

stressed Superintendent Bosco Saraiva.

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According to the founder and owner of the Rubberon group, Marco Garcia, the raw material to be used will be taken from the very interior of the Amazon.

“We are going to collect all this latex from river gutters to be able to produce this natural rubber here and deliver it first to Michelin, who produced the first green tire in the world using latex harvested directly from the forests, without harming, without cut down, keeping the forest standing. In addition to an economic project, it is a social project that seeks to give this dignity to riverside families and try to keep the environment intact”,

highlighted the entrepreneur.

*With advisory information

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