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Raízen

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Type
  
Private

Headquarters
  
São Paulo, Brazil

Founder
  
Royal Dutch Shell

Number of employees
  
40,000

Industry
  
Energy

Website
  
www.raizen.com

Founded
  
2010

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Key people
  
Luis Henrique Guimarães, (CEO) Rubens Ometto Silveira Mello, (Chairman)

Products
  
Ethanol Sugar Electric energy

Revenue
  
25.6 billion USD (2012–2013)

Parent organizations
  
Cosan, Royal Dutch Shell, Cosan Industria

Profiles

Ra zen


Raízen is the third largest Brazilian energy company by revenue and the fifth largest in Brazil. The company is a joint-venture formed in 2010 from the merger of the assets of sugar, fuel and ethanol derived from sugar from Cosan and Royal Dutch Shell in Brazil. The company has a market value of approximately US$15 Billion and a revenue of about US$26 billion.

Raízen has a network of 4,500 fuel stations under the Shell brand, more than 500 convenience stores and an ethanol production of over 2.2 billion US gallons (8,300,000 m3), the company also has 23 plants, inherited from Cosan, with crushing capacity of sugar cane 62 million tonnes per year and has 900 megawatts of installed capacity of electric power production from sugarcane bagasse. In the fuel area, the joint venture will market approximately 20 billion liters for the segments of transport, industry and its network of 4,500 fuel stations. It aims to certify just under 1 million hectares of affiliated sugarcane production area under the Bonsucro sustainability standard by 2020.

References

Raízen Wikipedia