Singular solutions for diverse problems

Ambitec Group

Leading in environmental services in Brazil, AMBITEC Group is a family company since 1929 which has stood out in this market in Brazil, growing 30% despite the economic global crisis.

Urban cleaning in action

The strong momentum gained from the mid-1990s, and particularly over the last three years, has transformed a transport company into a group of companies known for their innovation and flexibility, operating in seven states of Brazil, across the Mercosur and, from 2007, in Angola.

Through its environment and service companies AMBITEC has always been recognised by the flexibility and innovation delivered to its customers. According to its General Director, Tercio Borlenghi Jr., an entrepreneur who started working at the age of 16, the philosophy is that each client represents a different and particular situation. There are no shelf or generic solutions to specific problems. This approach has brought remarkable market success in recent years to environmental management activities, for example, aside from the industry restrictions in this year of crisis. Another contributing factor lies in the full range of services delivered in synergy, from combining services for LPG distribution to industry and complex environmental services for sophisticated logistic management supply.

We serve clients in the chemical, petrochemical, oil and automobile industry, and excel in providing services to the pulp and paper sector. In 2008, the Company prepared 450,000 tons of compost. It provides environmental services for diagnosis and remediation of contaminated areas, pond dredging, cleaning and decontamination of reservoirs; project, implementation and operation of treatment facilities (including bio-remediation), total waste management, transport, in-situ treatment and disposal of hazardous and non-hazardous industrial waste and decharacterisation of packaging at its generation site, cleaning, gardening, maintenance of industrial and commercial units, urban maintenance, collection and transport of domestic waste and from health care services.

Lake dredging

The companies

BRASIL AMBIENTAL is based in the Espírito Santo and São Paulo states; it has facilities for the treatment and disposal of industrial, urban, health care, port and airport waste. It also performs projects, environmental licenses and their implementation. The facilities include an incineration unit, landfill, waste fuel preparation, composting and bioremediation, industrial and sanitary wastewater treatment, inertisation and waste drying services. They are certified in accordance with ISO 9000 and 14000 standards. The company also runs Environmental Education centres, equipped with complete infrastructure for training and raising awareness for teachers, students and the community as a whole.

GETEL provides products transportation and distribution with a high variety of equipment and real time fleet tracking. This allows flexibility to meet clients’ logistics challenges, ensuring both safety and punctuality. It is one of the few Brazilian transport companies to have the SASSMAQ, System of Evaluation of Safety, Health, Environment and Quality certification. Furthermore, it is a partner of the Responsible Performance programme of ABIQUIM, the Brazilian Association of Chemical Industry.
NUTRIGAS is located in the Espírito Santo state. It is a bottling and LPG distribution company, ISO 9000 certified. Producing more than 2,800,000 bottles per year of gas, it distributes for industrial and domestic purposes. Its transport equipment enable the direct supply from the hauler to stationed reservoirs in industry, commerce and residences.

PLANETA AMBIENTAL provides chemical emergency response services, all over Brazil, and through its partnerships in other countries in South America. It performs technical removal and transportation of hazardous cargo resulting from accidents and supplies equipment and materials for the services implementation. It supplies further services in cleaning and land remediation, temporary storage and disposal of hazardous waste, training and instructions to prevent accidents. In partnership with the French institute INERIS, the company offers specialised consulting services, emergency action plans, industrial and natural risk analysis, consultancy services to large-scale ventures in the sectors of oil, mining, roads, railways and ports, as well as issuing Quality Certification and Seal for Brazilian products exported to France or to other European Community Countries.

Looking to the future

The AMBITEC Group does not rest on its laurels. It is developing waste-to-energy technologies and also building a multimodal port (dry port) facility – NUTRIPETRO – in Aracruz, in the Espírito Santo state, one of the Brazilian States which have boosted their economy the most over recent years.
In 2007, the Group expanded its activities abroad, by establishing Ambitec Angola, a company that renders services to public and private sectors, providing environmental solutions.

AMBITEC Group pursues sustainable actions, ensuring today’s environmental integrity and preserving it for the future generations. This concept has certainly been a key differentiator and ensured the success factor of the Group in a very competitive market.

Ambitec Group
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