The strength of the industry

A housewife in Minas Gerais carefully sets the table in order to receive the family with her favorite glassware. The captain of an amateur soccer team in Belém do Pará proudly lifts up the trophy won in the tournament of the city. The telephone operator of a small city in Rio Grande do Sul does whatever she can to answer a call – and she can only do such thing thanks to the efficiency of the new Telephone Central Station. In São Paulo, a girl enters a store in order to choose a hat she will give her grandfather.

What do all these scenes have in common? The products that appear in all the scenes were probably made in Santa Catarina. These are some segments where the State is the national leader – but are not the only ones. The same happens with ceramic dishware, packaging and foam products and sports and nautical products, just to name a few. The State stands out in many other segments; not only nationally, but also to have conquered an important slice of the international market. Santa Catarina produces industrialized chicken and pork foods, clothing industry, hermetic compressors, gardening tools, moving parts for track tractors, bicycle pedal production and crochet strings.

Santa Catarina’s transformation industry is the fifth largest in Brazil in number of companies (43 thousand) and in the number of employees (476 thousand). All this in a State that occupies only 1.1% of the national territory.

 

Santa Catarina´s Imports and Exports

	Main countries	Main products
Exports US$ 5.9 billion	1st United States	1st Chickens (meat and giblets)
	2nd Argentina	2nd Tobacco
	3rd Germany	3rd Motor compressors
	4th Holland	4th Electric motors
	5th United Kingdom	5th Wooden furniture
	6th Russia	6th Pigs (pork meat, carcasses and giblets)
	7th Japan	7th Fiberwood and Pinewood
	8th Mexico	8th Cylinder blocks, cylinder heads etc, for combustion engines
	9th Italy	9th Tiles, ceramics, glazed glass, enameled goods
	10th Chile	10th Doors, frames, doorframe linings and sills
Imports US$ 3.4 billion	1st Argentina	1st Refined copper cathodes and their elements
	2nd China	2nd Polyethylenes
	3rd Chile	3rd Ethylene Polymer
	4th United States	4th Demijohns, bottles, flasks etc
	5th Germany	5th Texturized and artificial polyester fiber
	6th Uruguay	6th Wheat
	7th Peru	7th Polyester fiber
	8th Italy	8th Un-toasted malt
	9th Indonesia	9th Refined copper fibers
	10th Paraguay	10th Corn grains, except for sowing