05/16/2019 14h12

Mineração Jundu expands dolomite deposit in the region of Itapeva

Investment ensures supply to the glass industry in the state and relied on the supported from InvestSP

Invest São Paulo

Mineração Jundu, the largest supplier of nonmetallic minerals for the glass and foundry industries in the country, announces the expansion of the current dolomite deposit in the city of Bom Sucesso do Itararé, in the Administrative Region of Itapeva. The investment will allow the continued supply of the current production chain of flat glass – “float” in the state of São Paulo.

 InvestSP – Investment Promotion Agency of the State of São Paulo, was responsible for promoting a dialogue with Cetesb with regard to the procedures required for environmental licensing.

 “This project is considered strategic for the supply of this mineral, due to its quality for use in the formulation of the glass and its location. The expansion in Bom Sucesso do Itararé is part of the company’s effort to meet the increasing requirements in the specifications of raw materials and to maintain constancy and safety in the supply of the glass industries,” says Marcos Sintoni, manager of New Business and Strategy of Mineração Jundu.

 Flat glass is widely used in the automotive, home appliances, construction, furniture and décor industries. Dolomite, in turn, is one of the minerals that make up glass, as well as quartz sand and limestone, also produced by Mineração Jundu.

 “The glass industry is an important consumer in the state and this expansion will increase the supply of the raw material, which, consequently, contributes to economic development. For InvestSP, acting as a mediator in the environmental matters is very significant, as the company promotes this expansion in a very responsible and sustainable manner, since mineral extraction has strict criteria to be followed,” says the president of InvestSP, Wilson Mello.

 In the state of São Paulo, Mineração Jundu also has plants in Analândia and Descalvado (Administrative Regions of Campinas and Central, respectively), where it extracts and processes quartz sand for the glass industry.

 

About Mineração Jundu

Mineração Jundu was founded in 1959, beginning its activities with the extraction and processing of quartz sand near the South coast of São Paulo. In 1995, Mineração Jundu was acquired by the Saint-Gobain Group. In 2002, the Saint-Gobain Group entered into a joint venture with UNIMIN, a US company controlled by the Belgian group SCR-SIBELCO, and this merger gave rise to the largest supplier of non-metallic minerals to the glass and foundry industries in the country.

A private corporation that operates in the mining segment of non-metallic minerals, producing and trading industrial quartz sand, resin sands, ground silica, calcitic limestone and dolomite.

Its products serve the markets of foundry, glass, ceramic, abrasives, filters, sports fields, chemical products, oil well fracturing operations, among others.