Nortox

For over 63 years, Nortox has been a partner of Brazilian farmers in food production. It was founded on April 14, 1954, in Apucarana (PR). The company started as an industry formulator of powder insecticide to combat the coffee berry borer,during a time when coffee plantations were one of the greatest sources of wealth in Brazil, covering a continu... ous area that stretched from thePioneer North to the ravines of River Paran. In the early 60s, Nortox entered into the market of insecticides for cotton crops. In 1966, it became a joint stock company incorporated with national capital. Also in this decade, due to the need to broaden and diversify production, it moved to the city of Arapongas, in Aricanduva district, where it built a modern industrial unit. The company started in herbicide business in 1972, when the market for this type of product began to grow. Shortly after, it began to synthesize the Trifluralin herbicide and gradually installed units to produce the intermediates required for their manufacture. For this purpose it had to master the technology of amination, chlorination, nitration and fluorination. In the following years, the industry began to produce technical and formulated Alachlor, technical and formulated Dimethoate and technical and formulated Diuron. The decade of 1980 was marked by great changes in agriculture. No-till farming was made possible when, in 1983, Nortox began to produce, as a pioneer in Brazil, the glyphosate herbicide. Due to this, the price of glyphosate decreased significantly and no-till farming could be adopted all over Brazil. In the 90s, the business scenario changes: we witness company mergers, the growth of multinationals in the agrochemical segment, by importing the active ingredients, and the closure of production lines in the country. Nortox elaborates a new strategic plan and trails opposite direction, expanding its product line and synthesizing new molecules in Brazil, focusing on crops for which the company had higher vocation. Results: today Nortox is the ...Read More