São Paulo – Busa, a Brazilian manufacturer of cotton processing and road transport equipment, is considering setting up a sales and services structure in Sudan, an Arab country in North Africa they have already exported to. The information comes from Busa’s Foreign Trade manager, Evandro Oliveira. According to him there is also the perspective of a selling a cotton processing plant project to Sudan, which will have Algerian investment.
Busa works with technology solutions for cotton processing, supplying from crop equipment to processing units and fiber packaging machinery for commercialization. The company sells plant equipment and also the installation services. Busa also manufactures chassis implements, such as semitrailer, tows and platforms, mainly for agricultural use.
The company has started to export to Sudan after winning an international tender for supplying cotton gin in 2008. According to Oliveira, the company later has also sent logistic and harvest equipment to the Arab country via Brazilian cotton producers. Due to this fact, he has already received delegations from Sudan, Khartoum and Sennar, at the company’s factory, in the city of Guará, in the state of São Paulo.
“We are very interested in developing projects with partners in the Arab world and we look into all the government’s initiative to strengthen these trade links with great interest. Using the paths created by the governments, private companies can boost their partnership and implement negotiations, taking advantage of the credit and investment lines”, Oliveira told ANBA.
Busa has two production units in Guará, one targeted at the cotton area and the other at the road transport area. The company is building another industrial unit in Atibaia, in São Paulo’s countryside, to be closer to the road transport consumer centers. Abroad, the company maintains a representative in the United States and a distributor in France. The latter deals in Burkina Faso, in Africa, and other African countries which do not grow cotton.
The company was created in 1956 by the Rodrigues family. Currently the administration is held by the second generation, namely Luiz Carlos Rodrigues, son of one of the founders Álvaro Rodrigues and Rosa Vieira Rodrigues. Luiz Carlos took over the company in 1970 and focused the activities on cotton processing, making Busa a leader in this area in the Brazilian market.
Since the 70’s Busa is a player in the international market. The first exports were transport and agriculture equipment to Latin America countries. Since 2006, they started exporting cotton processing plant complement projects. The first, says Oliveira, was installed in Burkina Faso. Since then, the company has sold projects to the United States, Bolivia, Venezuela, Argentina and Sudan.
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Website: www.busa.com.br (in Portuguese)
Telephone: (+5516) 3831 8500
*Translated by Rodrigo Mendonça
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