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The food and beverages hub includes major companies in the sec-
                                                                            tor, such as Bunge, which produces almost 2,000 tons of flour and
                                                                            wheat flour premix per day for the breadmaking, biscuit and pasta in-
                                                                            dustries. Coca Cola, Pepsico, and Camil also have factories in the area.
                                                                               The pharmaceuticals hub was launched with the installation of
                                                                            an Aché Group factory. The land clearing for this enormous national
                                                                            company’s facility was started in 2017 and the first stage was comple-
                                                                            ted two years later. The second phase of the undertaking is due to be
                                                                            concluded soon. When the plant is operating at full capacity, it will be
                                                                            able to produce 700 million units of medication per year.
                                                                               Another huge company in this sector is about to arrive in Suape. In
                                                                            the second half of 2022, a contract was signed to acquire the land on
                                                                            which a new plant will be constructed, with an investment of over R$
                                                                            1 billion. The plant will be a huge structure, with 36 production lines.
                                                                            In a possible second phase, it will also manufacture the so-called Acti-
                                                                            ve Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API), the raw material used to produce
                     A diverse range of hubs                                vaccines.

                                                                               Since Suape functions like a city, it comes as no surprise that it
                                                                            should have a city-like infrastructure. This is why the 2035 Suape Mas-
                        Twelve industrial hubs have now been installed throughout the   ter Plan envisages a Central Services Zone within the Economic De-
                     Suape site. There is the logistics hub, the construction materials hub,   velopment Macrozone. This will cover health, education, leisure, hos-
                     the metalworking hub, and the shipbuilding and offshore construction   pitality, and other services for those living and working in or passing
                     hub. The area also contains business clusters relating to bulk liquids   through this great city.
                     and gases, wind power turbine components, PET and other plastic   With so many positive figures and such an unceasing stream of
                     preforms, petrochemicals, food and beverages, services, pharma-  new developments, it is practically impossible to resist a touch of Per-
                     ceutical chemicals, and power generation. The petrochemical cluster   nambuco-style megalomania when talking about Suape. Not least
                     includes companies that lead the field in the production of PTA and   because something that was already huge is getting even larger. The
                     PET resin, making the complex the largest hub for the plastics and PET   Port and industrial Complex will never cease to grow and to have an
                     packaging chain in South America.                      even greater impact on the region.





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