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With a history that stretches back 74 years and 2,383 direct employees, the company is the leader in Brazil’s roofing materials industry. It also operates in various other segments, including bathroom chinaware, kitchen and bathroom metal fixtures and construction solutions, among other products, and has several sales offices and three subsidiaries: SAMA S.A. Minerações Associadas – the only chrysotile asbestos mining company in Latin America and the world’s third largest producer of the material; Precon Goiás Industrial Ltda., which produces fiber-cement roofing tiles at a plant located in the Midwest; and Tégula Soluções para Telhados Ltda., a leading manufacturer of concrete roofing tiles that has six plants in Brazil’s Northeast, Southeast, South and Midwest. GRI 2.2 | 2.3 | 2.5 | 2.8
The year 2014 will mark the inauguration of the first bathroom chinaware plant in the multi-products unit in Ceará, which is a joint venture between the Eternit Group and Colceramica, a company of the Colombian multinational Organizações Corona S.A. The plant will have initial production capacity of 1.5 million units/year. In the year, the company will also focus its efforts on completing its investments in the unit to research, develop and produce construction material inputs in Manaus, Amazonas, in line with its Structured Expansion and Diversification Plan, as well as on maintaining and modernizing its industrial facilities.
All fiber-cement plants hold ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 certificationSome of Eternit’s key competitive advantages include a bold and innovative management team, a strong brand, its portfolio, the cost-benefit tradeoff of its products, the strategic location of its plants, its comprehensive distribution channel and its investment capacity. With efficient logistics operations, the Company quickly serves clients across Brazil, which is the focus of its operations. At SAMA, surplus production is exported to over 20 countries – including India, Indonesia, Mexico, Thailand and Malaysia. GRI 2.7