Duratex is a Brazilian, public listed, private company. Its stocks are traded at BM&FBOVESPA and Its control is shared by the Groups
Itaúsa – Investimentos Itaú S.A. with 39.6% of the capital and Ligna - Companhia Ligna de Investimentos with 17.0% of the capital. The remaining shares are spread on the market.
The Itaúsa Group is the second largest in the country, with outstanding performance in the financial sector through Banco Itau Holding Financeira. It has relevant performance in the chemical sector through Elekeiroz S.A., in the information technology sector through Itautec and in the socio-cultural area through the Instituto Itaú Cultural. The Ligna Group has important activities in the retail and distribution of inputs for civil construction through Leroy Merlin and carpentry industry through Leo Madeiras and also in the construction and leasing of real state through Espaço Negócios.
With the support of these two major groups, Duratex is the biggest panel making company of the Southern Hemisphere and the leader in the Brazilian market - hardboard, MDP, MDF/HDF/SDF, laminate flooring under the brand name Durafloor and semi-ready parts under the brand Multiform. Also has the leadership in metal fittings, under the brands Deca and Hydra, and maintains prominent presence in vitreous china, marketed under the brand name Deca.
Duratex has an industrial complex composed of twelve units strategically located in Brazil, being 7 in the Sao Paulo state, 2 in Rio Grande do Sul state, 1 in Minas Gerais state, 1 in Pernambuco state and 1 in Rio de Janeiro state. The company has approximately 209 thousand hectares with planted forests, mainly eucalyptus, which are grown in the Sao Paulo, Minas Gerais and Rio Grande do Sul states. This integrated operation of its industrial complexes, and an efficient supply network, ensure high degree of self-sufficiency in the strategic supply of wood, for the production of MDF, MDP and hardboard besides Durafloor laminate flooring and Multiform semi-ready parts. This structure ensures that Duratex has a production capacity of nearly 4 million m³/year of wood panels, 6 million m²/year of laminate flooring, 1.5 million m²/year of components and a combined capacity of nearly 23 million items of vitreous china and metal fittings.
The forest areas of Lençóis Paulista, Botucatu, Itapetininga and Agudos (SP) and of Uberlandia (MG) were awarded the Certification of Good Forest Management issued by the Forest Stewardship Council - FSC, an internationally recognized organization which certifies that the forest management is done based on conservation and sustainability principles. The forest management in Botucatu, as well as the seedling-production nursery, are certified by the ISO 14.001 and all industrial units are certified by the ISO 9001:2000.
Currently, Duratex has almost 9,800 employees and maintains its business headquarters in São Paulo, in addition to commercial offices in key Brazilian cities. It is also present in Argentina, through Deca Piazza, and in the US and Europe, through the commercial subsidiaries Duratex North America and Duratex Europe, respectively.
Updated on September, 2009 |
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