AgroPages-Former Arysta CEO is the new director of Nortox in Brazil-Agricultural news

Nortox S/A, the Brazilian company with the largest share of national capital in the sector of agrochemicals, announced last Friday (01.22) a new Commercial Director. He is Ferrari João Marcos, who assumes the areas of Sales, Marketing and R&D.

Acting on imports, synthesis, formulation and distribution of agrochemical and products for plant nutrition, Nortox launched a new project of sustainable growth for the next years. The company completes 62 years in the market and consolidates in Brazil as a detainer of high technology for production and formulation of agrochemicals.

Graduated from the State University of Londrina in 1988, Ferrari João Marcos has a long trajectory at the segment, working in multinationals like Bayer, Cyanamid and DuPont. Starting at the field as a salesman, he rose to strategic areas such as R&D, Marketing and Sales. He presided Arysta in Chile and, after his return to Brazil, accumulated the posts of president and CEO of Arysta in Brazil. Ferrari is from Arapongas, state of Paraná, the municipality where Nortox is headquartered.

Other enhancement in the National Sales Management is Osmar Trautwain Júnior with over 25 years of experience in the market, seven of those in Paraná as consultant and almost 20 years in Mato Grosso as Regional Sales Manager.

According to the company's leadership, the safety of its products and the certainty of relying on its partners to face adversities in the agricultural market are the intrinsic characteristics of Nortox and the focus of its policy on longevity.

Since 2000, besides widening the sales staff and technical assistance, present all over Brazil, Nortox has continued to bet on its growth policy. In 2010, it entered into the market of sugarcane and pasture and since 2011 it has developed products for plant nutrition. The company relies on 40 new procedures of registration ongoing. She also has done the complete acquisition of a complete portfolio of plant nutrition of other Brazilian companies consolidated for over 20 years in the national market.

“To overcome itself was one of the strongest brands of the company. Nortox believes that the next years will be a happy meeting between opportunity and strategy, between the market needs and the internal organization, between a country that looms agriculture and a modern company, which is also mature, fast, and capable of using all the resources to grow at the right track,” affirms Humberto Amaral, superintendent.