by Ekrem Duman | Aug 20, 2026 | Brazil Company Stories, Oil, Gas & Energy
⚡ TL;DRCosan is Rubens Ometto’s infrastructure-energy holding: from a family sugar mill in Piracicaba to controlling stakes in Raizen (bioenergy), Compass (natural gas), Rumo (railways), Moove (lubricants) and farmland platform Radar — capped by an...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 20, 2026 | Brazil Company Stories, Oil, Gas & Energy
⚡ TL;DREletrobras is Latin America’s largest electricity company — the state holding created in 1962 that built Brazil’s continental hydro-transmission system, then starred in the country’s boldest privatization: the R$33 billion...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 20, 2026 | Brazil Company Stories, Oil, Gas & Energy
⚡ TL;DRRaizen is the world’s largest sugarcane processor and ethanol producer — a 50-50 joint venture created in 2011 by Brazil’s Cosan and Shell, combining vast cane mills with Shell-branded fuel stations. It is Brazil’s bet that...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 19, 2026 | Brazil Company Stories, Mining & Steel
⚡ TL;DRSamarco — the Vale-BHP iron ore joint venture — caused Brazil’s worst environmental disaster when its Fundao dam collapsed at Mariana in 2015; Vale’s own Brumadinho dam followed in 2019, killing 270. Together the tragedies produced...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 19, 2026 | Brazil Company Stories, Mining & Steel
⚡ TL;DRUsiminas, founded in 1956 in Minas Gerais as a Brazil-Japan joint venture, became Latin America’s premier flat-steel maker for the automotive industry — then the stage for one of the region’s longest shareholder wars, as Techint’s...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 19, 2026 | Brazil Company Stories, Mining & Steel
⚡ TL;DRCSN — Companhia Siderurgica Nacional — is the Volta Redonda steel mill Getulio Vargas built in the 1940s as the symbol of Brazilian industrialization, privatized in 1993 and transformed by Benjamin Steinbruch into a vertically integrated...
