President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva participated today (07/29), at 10 AM, in the inauguration ceremony of Petrobras’ first commercial biodiesel production plant and in the launch of Petrobras Biocombustível. The plant, installed in Candeias (BA), will be capable of producing 57 million liters of biodiesel per year.
In August, Petrobras will complete the tests and kick-off production at two other plants, one in Montes Claros (Minas Gerais) and another in Quixadá (Ceará), which have the same production capacity as the Candeias plant. Together, investments in the three plants add up to R$295 million, which will generate work and income for 55,000 family farmers who were hired to supply the raw materials. The inauguration of this plant, in Candeias, is a milestone in Petrobras’ history and boosts the Company’s participation in the biodiesel productive chain, which is already consolidated in the fuel distribution area.
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