Nortox

The Nortox was founded on April 14, 1954, in Apucarana - PR.Began his career as formulator industry insecticide powder to combat the coffee berry borer, a time when the coffee plantations were a major source of wealth in Brazil, covering a continuous area stretching from the northern banks of the Pioneer River Paraná.In the early '60s, the Nortox entered the market of insecticides for cotton crops. In 1966, became a corporation organized in the national capital. In that same decade, the need to broaden and diversify production, moved to the city of Arapongas, the District of Aricanduva, where he built modern industrial unit.The company started the business of herbicides in 1972, when the market for this type of product began to grow. Shortly after, the Nortox now synthesize the herbicide Trifluralin and gradually deployed units to produce the intermediates required for their manufacture. For this, he needed to master the technology of amination, chlorination, nitration and fluorination. In the following years, the industry began producing Alachlor technical and formulated the Dimethoate technical and formulated and Diuron technical and formulated.The 80 was marked by major changes in agriculture. The tillage only became possible when, in 1983, started producing Nortox, a pioneer in Brazil, the herbicide Glyphosate. With this, the price dropped significantly Glyphosate and tillage could be adopted throughout Brazil.In 90 years, what changes is the business scenario: if the record-company mergers, the growth of multinational agrochemical segment, through the importation of active ingredients, and the closure of production lines in the countryThe Nortox sets a new strategic plan and track opposite direction, expanding its product line and synthesizing new molecules in Brazil, focusing on crops for which the company had higher vocation.In this decade, the company continued its march and following the growth of agribusiness in the 2004 Nortox reaffirms, with the installation of a new plant in Rondonópolis-MT, its fundamental commitment to Brazilian agriculture, which consists in the production, Brazil, the basic inputs to meet our agriculture. Named Nortox Midwest, the new unit has a built area of ??42,000 m2, generating more than 150 jobs, and has a production capacity of 70 million liters / kg / year in agrochemicals.Result: today Nortox is the largest national agrochemical and maintains successful market dispute with the multinationals.