Gaucho Famastil Taurus designs expand business for Angola

The Taurus Famastil Tools, lawn, should receive, this semester, visit the commercial representative of Angola in Brazil, Matheus Barros José. Accompanied by a Committee, will meet the company's installations in the Serra gaucha and dealing with the installation of an operation in the African country. Initially, according to the company, would be a commercial unit, but the project involves the construction of a plant in a second step. Currently, the products arrive in Africa already Famastil through direct resellers or traders.
"A very good opportunity presents itself in Angola. The country is under reconstruction, there are works around him and has no local tools factory ", explains the export manager of Famastil, Alexander Moroso of Lima. "Angola's GDP grows a lot because of holdings of oil and diamond reserves and is reflecting in the economy in the form of large works. Is a strategic country at the Centre of a region with 250 million inhabitants that is beginning to consume. " Angola also has free-trade treaty with the United States, Europe, and Asia, which can open doors for these locations.
Besides the external projects, Famastil announced that it will build a factory in São Lourenço da Mata, Pernambuco. According to the Director-General of Famastil, Michel Gasparin, the company had intended to deploy a unit in the Northeast and the city more attractive was São Lourenço da Mata, depending on proximity to Recife and logistic centers. "In addition, the city will host the World Cup and the investments in infrastructure will be very large, which will also benefit the company, which can take advantage of the growth opportunities that the development of the city, the State and the region can offer," he says.
With a construction area of 60 thousand square meters, and the initial flag is designed for 5 thousand meters, the new venture will work with different series of products that offers, as organizers Famastil plastics for hand tools, hoses, plastic injected products and also an assembly line of tools. However, the main investment of this unit is in the manufacture of handcarts, which should correspond to 40% of revenues from the factory. "The idea of setting up a factory of wheelbarrows in the Northeast comes from the need to reduce transport costs this item because it is a commodity in the segment of building material and your shipping cost is crucial in closing large volumes", explains the Director General of the company.
In addition, invest in other Famastil benefit for the unit. It is a distribution center (CD), which will meet all the Northeastern States and, in some specific operation, the Northern States. Initially, the size of the CD uses 2 thousand square meters of the building of 5 thousand meters which will be built.
The value of the total investment, adding the factory and the CD, reaches the House of r $ 16 million. "In this first phase, will be invested this value, but in five years, we can arrive at an investment of up to $ 30 million," says Gasparin. The Unit aims at an annual sales of $ 60 million. The new venture is expected to generate approximately 120 direct jobs in the first phase of the investment, which could reach almost 300 jobs in five years.