Industry
Sorocaba's industrial park is well-served by roads, highways, and public transportation. The industrial park boasts more than 25 million square meters and over 1600 industries. Main economic activities are: industrial machinery, heavy metallurgy, ironmaking and steelmaking, automotive parts, industrial textiles, agricultural equipment, chemical and petrochemical, cement production, eolic energy, pharmaceutics, paper and cellulose, electronics, telecommunications, tools, commerce and services. Its tools, automotive parts and pharmaceutics industry are the biggest in Brazil.
Some of the industries which are a part of this diverse offering are: JCB,Dynapac, Enertec, Metso, INA-Schaeffler, Cooper Tools, Case IH, Lufkin Industries, ZF Friedrichshafen, DANA Corporation, Villares Metals, YKK Group, Wobben Windpower, Pirelli, GM, Metalac, Luk, Allied Signal/Honeywell, Yashika, Kyocera, Hartmann-Mapol, Nipro Medical, GE Infrastructure Water & Process Technologies, Sealy, Campari, CSM, Flextronics, Hewlett-Packard, W.R. Grace Andrew Telecommunications, and Coca-Cola
The Ferroban railroad (formerly Sorocabana Railway and FEPASA) are connected to São Paulo and the Santos Seaport, the largest seaport in South America. The railroad is also an important link to Mercosur, reaching both Argentina and Bolivia.
Sorocaba also boasts a dry port terminal, which provides efficient road linkages to the various ports and airports of the region including Bertram Luiz Leupolz Airport, which has one of the busiest cargo terminals in the State. A second airport, with much higher traffic and passenger capacity is currently being planned for the upcoming years.
Read more about this topic: Sorocaba
Famous quotes containing the word industry:
“Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.”
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741–1794)
“It is while we are young that the habit of industry is formed. If not then, it never is afterwards. The fortune of our lives therefore depends on employing well the short period of our youth.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“Bankers, nepotists, contracts and talkies: on four fingers one may count the leeches which have sucked a young and vigorous industry into paresis.”
—Dalton Trumbo (1905–1976)