Santa Clara turns 25 with new projects to support its growth rate

Santa Clara Agrociência, a technological innovation company in area of ​​plant nutrition and protection, completes 25 years of history in Brazilian agriculture, by strongly contributing to the development of agriculture and provide exclusive, many patented, high-tech solutions shipments that can serve the main agricultural crops.

The company's market recognition is proven by its growth continuous and expressive in recent years, which reached an average of 34% per year in the last five harvests, while its operating market grew 17% in the same period. Today Santa Clara is one of the largest companies in the special fertilizers from Brazil, acting as one of the consolidators of this market, and has projects that will sustain this growth in the coming years, already preparing to meet the future demands that should arise in the field.

Santa Clara is the most internationalized of Brazilian special nutrition companies. With extensive experience in the market international, it operates in more than 30 countries, with the construction of a large active in terms of product registrations in European countries and all Americas and a significant part of its revenue coming from trade exterior. It is genuinely Brazilian technology helping farmers different parts of the world to improve the results of their crops.

One of the pillars that differentiate Santa Clara and enable its operations in the international market is the search for the development of new technologies agricultural. Innovation is part of the company's culture, which invests 8% of its revenue in Research & Development, practically double the sector average, and has a team of internal researchers covering areas of knowledge such as chemistry, microbiology and plant nutrition. That The team also has a network of public and private research institutions with approximately 40 partners, who contribute to the development of new products. The result is the production of proprietary and diverse technologies were subject to patent protection, generating a robust pipeline of new solutions that should support the company’s coming years.

The celebration of the company's 25th anniversary also marks a new expansion of its foliar fertilizers industrial unit, located in Jaboticabal, in the interior of São Paulo, which will prepare the company to achieve volumes expected for the coming years. Currently, the unit produces formulations of organomineral fertilizers, of soluble salts, soluble concentrates and synthesizes components for multifunctional products, in addition to compounds produced through suspensions of nanoparticles.

With this expansion, the company's total area will be tripled, expanding production capacity, storage, laboratory and office facilities corporate. There will be an increase of more than 4.000 m² in storage capacity and shipping of products, which represents an increase of 125% in capacity current. It is a strategy adopted by the company to improve its efficiency operational as a whole, the energy cost per unit produced and the customer service, aiming to significantly reduce delivery times in national sales as well as exports. The expansion also includes a new manufacturing unit, which will support the launch of the new line of products and will have equipment and technologies for the manufacturing process of the products.

In addition to the physical expansion of the Santa Clara company, there is also the investment in people. Some areas, such as Regulatory Affairs, will be tripled to meet future growth needs, especially related to the launches of new product lines. In parallel, the company also makes a high investment in the qualification of employees, seeking that 80% of professionals working in the area of ​​RD&I (Research, Development and Innovation), QC (Quality Control), AR (Matters Regulatory) and Technical Area are trained as masters and doctors. Besides the traditional scientific training, Santa Clara University was established, a internal professional training program, which prepares teams with specific and customized content for the performance of the function of the various areas.

Among the main challenges for The company will enter the biological products market in the next few years. Some of the next launches based on biological solutions are being developed in partnership with EMBRAPA, EMBRAPII and ESALQ-USP with technologies disruptive solutions not yet available on the Brazilian and global markets. The adoption of biological products in agriculture have been advocated in order to promote sustainability of the agricultural production system.

The complete line of fertilizers special products added to the line of biological products and the expansion of the Jaboticabal factory will guarantee the growth of Santa Clara in the coming years and full service to the demands for productivity, sustainability, quality and efficiency in food production in Brazil and around the world.