Brazilian sugar and ethanol producer Copersucar celebrated its 50th anniversary this week and outlined a bold plan to increase its market share in Brazil to 30% by 2018 with production of 200 milli...
Brazilian sugar and ethanol producer Copersucar celebrated its 50th anniversary this week and outlined a bold plan to increase its market share in Brazil to 30% by 2018 with production of 200 million tons of sugarcane. If the Company achieved this objective, it would double Copersucars current market share in Brazil.
Copersucar has 34 associated mills in the state of São Paulo, Paraná and Minas Gerais in Brazil. The company is the leading sugar and ethanol producer and distributor and one of the world's biggest exporters of these products. The company plans to process nearly 80 million tons of sugar cane in the current crop year with revenues of about US$3.5 billion, one third higher than last year.
Copersucar's sugar sales are expected to reach 1.6 million tons in the domestic market and 4.7 million tons in the international market, a significant increase from last crop. Meanwhile, the forecasts for ethanol are of 3.7 billion liters sold in the domestic market and 720 million liters sold in the international market, about 30% higher than last year for the Company.
In the previous crop year Copersucar processed 67.6 million tons of sugar cane, 3.8% more than in the previous crop. Its mills produced 3.2 million tons of sugar and 3.68 billion liters of ethanol in the period. Meanwhile, exports totaled 2.5 million tons of sugar and almost one billion liters of ethanol.
Copersucar accounted for 13% of all the sugar and 13% of all the ethanol sold in the Center-South region of Brazil in the last crop year, and for 14% of the sugar and 23% of the ethanol exported in the period.
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