Acucar Guarani S.A.

Guarani has as main activity the transformation of sugar cane into sugar, ethanol and electric power, currently carried out in eight industrial units: Sever?nia, Cruz Alta, S?o Jos?, Andrade, Tanabi, Vertente (50% of participation) and Mandu in Brazil and one in Mozambique, Africa. It is the third largest sugarcane processor and also third sugar and ethanol producer in Brazil, with estimated crushing capacity of 20 million tons of sugarcane in the 2010/11 crop. The Company is a member of the Sugarcane Technology Center ??CTC and has agreements with the best and internationally renowned institutes and foundations of development and leading edge technology, such as UFSCAR, the Campinas Agronomic Institute ??IAC, the Brazilian Agricultural Research Institute ??Embrapa, the Biodynamic Institute and the Campinas Biological Institute ??IBC. The company is controlled by two leaders in their areas of expertise, Tereos Internacional and Petrobras Biocombust?vel. Tereos Internacional is controlled by the French Group Tereos, one of the major players in the global agribusiness. Guarani is engaged on social projects with communities neighboring the industrial units. Guarani invests in projects to improve the productive process with the purpose of mitigating risks of environmental damage. It organizes environmental education projects.