Brazil’s development on solid grounds requires exports to significantly increase. The government and the private enterprise even established a goal for 2002: US$ 100 billion. In order to achieve that goal, the federal government created both the Special Exports Program (PEE) and The APEX Brasil - Trade and Investment Promotion Agency. Responsible for Brazil’s commercial promotion policy, the Agency’s goal is to stimulate the export of goods and services and the country’s image, contributing to the development of Brazilian companies.
APEX Brasil supports the following actions, always in partnership with the private sector: qualification and training, market research, business transactions, commercial information, participation in trade fairs and seminars, identification of strategic sectors for export, strengthening of the MARCA BRAZIL (BRAZIL TRADEMARK), processes adequacy (technology, certification, etc.) and product adequacy (packaging, design, etc.), among others.
The Brazilian Association for the Chemical Industry (Abiquim), which was founded in 1964, is aimed at promoting the sustainable development of the country’s chemical industry with a view to increasing production and competitiveness, generating jobs and income, and improving the quality of the products, thus encouraging the respect for the environment and contributing to the health and welfare of the Brazilian society.
The producers of thermoplastic resin are included in the list of the companies associated with Abiquim and constitute the Thermoplastic Resin Sectorial Commission (Coplast), which monitors the sector’s performance. These companies also maintain at Abiquim the Plastivida (Plasti-life) Program, which is aimed at establishing and fixing, before society, the correct perception of manufactured plastic and its interface with the environment, also counting on the participation of petrochemical companies that supply basic raw material to the plastic chain.
The Brazilian Association for the Plastic Industry (ABIPLAST) was created in April 1967 with the purpose of conducting and participating in the actions aimed at improving the competitiveness of private companies nationally and internationally, favoring the economic and technologic development suitable for the context of market internationalization.
ABIPLAST has maintained and ensured its associates’ representativeness by monitoring the sector’s different segments, implementing actions in the technological, foreign-trade, tax and juridical areas, and guaranteeing industrial activity at the levels of their needs.
The Instituto Nacional do Plástico – INP – was created in 1989, because of the necessities generated by the globalization, to turn the Brazilian plastic sector more competitive with international companies. As a sectorial technological institution, its main goal is to be in the core of the plastic productive chain.
The strength and importance of the INP come from the union of the most important class entities connected to plastic: the Associação Brasileira da Indústria de Máquinas – Abimaq and the Sindicato das Indústrias de Resinas Sintéticas do Estado de São Paulo. With these institutions, the INP gathers the four forces of the plastic productive chain: the resin producers, the raw material producers, the plastic converters and the makers of machine and equipment for the conversion of polymers.
The labour qualification, the encouragement to export, the access and exchange of the most modern technology, especially to the small and mid-sized businesses, the standardization and the evaluation of the accordance of our products make the roll of services provided by the INP and they contribute to the development of the Brazilian Industry of Plastic.
