Group will have factory to process soybeans in TO

Granol, Brazilian company which produces soybean derivatives, will build a factory in Porto Nacional, in the region of Palmas (TO).
The investment will be r $ 135 million, of which r $ 142 million financed by the Banco da Amazônia.
The unit will be an overwhelming with soybean processing capacity of 600 thousand tons per year.
Today, the group already has a biodiesel plant in the locality, but need to buy oil suppliers needed to make fuel or send an own factory in Anápolis (Goiás).
When the grain Harvester come on-stream in early 2015, the company will have the input in the municipality.
"Is a project by piggybacking it will provide greater cost efficiency and scale," says the industrial Director Juan Diego Fernando.
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In addition to biodiesel, other products made by the company are soybean meal, refined oil, lecithin and Glycerin--the latter two are used by chemical and food industries, for example.
Part of the production will be exported mainly by North-South railroads and Carajás, giving access to the port of São Luís (MA).
"We postponed this investment for several years because of the lack of adequate logistics solutions. Now, when the factory work, this infrastructure should be deployed, "he says.
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