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December 1, 2011
Alcoa is setting up Environmental Park in Tubarão (SC)
The park is being created to provide the community with leisure and educational activities, such as ecological trails, and to promote environmental conservation technologies.
At the end of November representatives from Alcoa visited the communities of São Cristóvão, Sertão dos Corrêas, Sanga do Lageado and Linha Mesquita, in Tubarão (SC) to present the project for the Environmental Park that is being set up in the municipality.
 
With its opening planned for 2012, the parkis being developed with consultancy help being provided by the Wildlife and Environmental Education Research Company (SPVS), an NGO that supports nature conservation projects.Unisul (University of the Southern Santa Catarina) is also a partner in the project.
 
The park is being created to provide the community with leisure and educational activities, such as ecological trails, and to promote environmental conservation technologies. The location covers an area of 12 hectares, of which 85% is native forest, and by 2014 should also receive an Environmental Education Center.
 
 
About Alcoa
Alcoa Alumínio S.A. is a subsidiary of Alcoa Inc., the world’s leading company in the production of primary and transformed aluminum and alumina. The Company has 59,000 employees in 31 countries and for the tenth consecutive year is part of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. Alcoa has been in Latin America and the Caribbean since the end of the 1950s and has some 7,000 employees in the region, with operations in Brazil, Jamaica and Surinam.
 
In Brazil the company operates in the whole of the aluminum production chain from bauxite mining to the production of transformed products. Alcoa has seven production units and three offices in the states of Maranhão, Minas Gerais, Pará, Pernambuco, Santa Catarina, São Paulo and the Federal District. The company also has shareholdings in four hydroelectric power stations: Machadinho and Barra Grande on the border of the states of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul; Serra do Facão in Goiás; and Estreito, between Maranhão and Tocantins. In 2010 Alcoa recorded revenues of US$ 1.6 billion in Brazil. In 2011 the Company was considered a benchmark in social responsibility and was one of the 21 model companies in the Guia Exame de Sustentabilidade [Exame magazine’s Sustainability Guide]. Further information can be found at www.alcoa.com.br.