Bonsucex Group is a non-financial conglomerate of companies formed by Brazilian private capital. It started as a Holding Company of Investments in 1982, founded by Silvio Tini de Araújo. Today, its wholly and associated companies are of many different economical areas worldwide (engineering, construction and incorporation by Azevedo & Travassos Company; mining, metallurgical and fertilizers by Paranapanema Group and its related companies Caraiba Metals, Eluma, Cibrafertil, and Mineração Taboca, the world’s biggest polymers mine; Manganese Mining through Mineração Buritirama; shoes and textile via Alpargatas, producer of the worldwide famous Havaianas flip-flop sandals, and Santista Textile & Tavex, with Head Office in Spain, the world’s biggest producer of denin; chemical industry via Bombril, one of the most famous and traditionals Brazilian companies in this sector; biofuel via Brasil Ecodiesel, the Brazilian largest producer of Biodiesel; reforesting through Fazendas do Pará; among other business), employing around 55.000 people directly and indirectly. Bonsucex Group, stockholder of Mineração Buritirama for a long time, took total control of the company in 2000, playing a key hole in its strategies definition, processes improvement and business directives.