Mauser's chief executive Stefan Mueller-Arends probably wasn't exaggerating when he described Brazil, the world's ninth largest economy, as "one the most attractive regions of the world". For although the local chemical industry, which, according to the latest figures released by ABIQUIM, the Brazilian Chemical Industry Association, recorded a net sales increase of just 1.7 per cent in 2006, up from BRL 171.4bn ($80.3bn) in 2005 to BRL 174.3bn, initially proved quite sluggish in terms of adopting the intermediate bulk container (IBC), things could well be set for something of a quickening, with estimates suggesting that last year alone Brazilian shippers employed around 200,000 new, used and tripleased IBCs, approximately 80,000 of which were locally produced virgin units.
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