Aracruz Celulose

Aracruz Celulose S. A. was a paper and cardboard manufacturer and supplier of timber from Brazil, based in São Paulo. The company produced paper and paperboard products, and similar cellulose-based products ( handkerchiefs, etc. ) with a focus in the packaging sector.

Aracruz Celulose had three plants for paper making in Aracruz in the state of Espírito Santo, in Guaiba in the state of Rio Grande do Sul and in Eunápolis in the state of Bahia. The company also had projects in the forestry and wood sector, particularly in the states of Bahia and Minas Gerais.

The company was of the Safra Group ( Joseph Safra ), Lorentzen and Votorantim ( Antônio Ermirio de Moraes ) (each a corporate share of Aracruz by 28 percent) and by financial companies BNDES, the Brazilian National Economic and Social Development Bank ( 12.5 per cent) controlled. It was listed in the financial index IBOVESPA, as well as on Latin America Securities Market ( Latibex ) in Madrid. At the NYSE, an ADR traded under the ticker symbol ARA within the ADR level III program, where each ADR 10 "Class B" preferred shares of Aracruz represented.

2009 merged with the Brazilian Aracruz Celulose e Papel paper manufacturer Votorantim ( subsidiary of Grupo Votorantim ) the company Fibria.

Corporate criticism

There were land disputes between the company and indigenous population groups, for example the Tupinikim Guarani and the African descent population of Quilombolo.

1996 awarded by anthropological report by the FUNAI ( Fundação Nacional do Índio ), for example, indigenous peoples Tupinikim and Guarani 18,000 acres of land. From this country, to which the indigenous people have an original claim, but only 7,061 hectares could be used, the rest held by the Aracruz Celulose illegally occupied. Its uses in Espirito Santo total of 150,000 hectares of land for the cultivation of eucalyptus monocultures for the production of pulp. Aracruz put a 2006 objection to the study and identification of the indigenous land of FUNAI and put the ethnic identity of the Tupinikim and Guarani in question. In the same year the decades- long dispute between the two parties culminated in the destruction of an entire village of indigenous people by Aracruz and the Polícia Federal. Another study by the FUNAI, however, the controversial 11,000 hectares finally confirmed as an original indigenous land. 2007 declared the Minister of Justice officially the entire 18,000 hectares as a legitimate land of the Guarani and Tupinikim. Aracruz helped himself in the struggle for land for his Monokolturen addition to the destruction of the goods and chattels of the indigenous peoples of other unfair means. The group was racist material to the schools distribute, placed on large screens with racist slogans and published relevant articles in the newspaper.

For the production of hygiene articles such as Tempo handkerchiefs or Charmin toilet paper in the consumer goods company P & G has collaborated with Aracruz and is therefore due to the violent expulsion of Indians as well as the large-scale control forest clearing by Aracruz come under criticism. Under pressure from mainly environmental organizations such as Robin Wood cooperation with Aracruz has been set.