Duratex, or Dexco, is a publicly listed private Brazilian company, with shares traded at the B3 since 1951. The company previously only called Duratex is the result of the merger Duratex with Satipel Industrial, a company founded in 1971. It is controlled by the Itaúsa Group and Ligna Group. The company is the eighth largest producer of wood panels in the

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and the largest in the Southern Hemisphere. Duratex operates in Brazil and Colombia. Manufacturing

wood Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants. It is an organic materiala natural composite of cellulose fibers that are strong in tension and embedded in a matrix of lignin th ...

products, sanitary vitreous

chinaware Chinese ceramics show a continuous development since pre-dynastic times and are one of the most significant forms of Chinese art and ceramics globally. The first pottery was made during the Palaeolithic era. Chinese ceramics range from construc ...

and

metal A metal (from Greek μέταλλον ''métallon'', "mine, quarry, metal") is a material that, when freshly prepared, polished, or fractured, shows a lustrous appearance, and conducts electricity and heat relatively well. Metals are typicall ...

fittings aimed at the furniture industry and the civil construction sectors, Duratex S.A has ten industrial plants, located in the States of

São Paulo São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for 'Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the GaWC a ...

Minas Gerais Minas Gerais () is a state in Southeastern Brazil. It ranks as the second most populous, the third by gross domestic product (GDP), and the fourth largest by area in the country. The state's capital and largest city, Belo Horizonte (literally ...

and

Rio Grande do Sul Rio Grande do Sul (, , ; "Great River of the South") is a Federative units of Brazil, state in the South Region, Brazil, southern region of Brazil. It is the Federative_units_of_Brazil#List, fifth-most-populous state and the List of Brazilian st ...

. It is Brazilian market leader in the segment of reconstituted wooden boards – hardboards, particle boards, medium, high and super-density fiberboards (MDF/HDF/SDF), as well as laminated floorboards marketed under the Durafloor brand. It is Brazilian market leader in the segment of sanitary metal fittings, under the Deca and Hydra brands (the latter for flush valves), and has a significant market share in the sanitary vitreous chinaware segment, marketed under the Deca brand. Duratex S.A is present in Argentina, the United States and Europe through the Deca Piazza, Duratex North America and Duratex Europe respectively. It has about 209 thousand hectares of forests of planted forests with FSC certified The

Lençóis Paulista Lençóis Paulista is a municipality in the Central West region of the state of São Paulo. The population is 68,990 (2020 est.) in an area of 810 km². The elevation is 550 m. It is home of the largest library in the interior of the State of ...

Botucatu Botucatu is a city in the southeastern region of Brazil and is located from São Paulo, the capital of the state of São Paulo. It has an estimated population of 148,130 (as of 2020) in an area of . It lies on the top of a plateau ( high). Botuca ...

Itapetininga Itapetininga is a municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The population is 165,526 (2020 est.) in an area of 1790 km2. The name comes from a Tupi-Guarani language, meaning "dry stone".Agudos Agudos is a Brazilian Municipalities of Brazil, municipality located in the west-central part of the state of São Paulo (state), São Paulo. The population is 37,401 (2020 est.) in an area of 966 km². Distance from the capital is 330 k ...

Units, located in the State of São Paulo, were awarded the

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by the

Forest Stewardship Council The Forest Stewardship Council A. C. (FSC) is an international non-profit, multistakeholder organization established in 1993 that promotes responsible management of the world's forests via timber certification. It is an example of a market-ba ...

– FSC, and internationally recognized organization which certifies forest management based on preservation and sustainability principles. Also, the management of the forest areas in Botucatu, as well as the seedling-production nursery, is certified by the ISO 14.001 environmental norm.

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