Brazilian Renderers — a partnership between ABRA and the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (ApexBrasil) — held a strategic meeting this Thursday (April 24) in Lima, Peru. The meeting included the presence of Brazil’s agricultural attaché in Lima, Warley Efrem Campos, along with representatives from twelve Peruvian companies, potential buyers of Brazilian products.
The objective was to encourage local companies to formally express their support to Peru’s National Agrarian Health Service (Senasa Peru) for expanding the number of Brazilian companies authorized to export animal-origin meals and fats to the country. Currently, the Peruvian market is served by a limited number of Brazilian suppliers — a restriction that could affect the local supply chain.
The meeting also highlighted the importance of including bovine meat and bone meal producers, and of allowing companies already authorized to export meals to also export fats without the need for a new technical visit — requiring only documentary approval.
To support this mobilization, the agricultural attaché’s office created a direct communication channel with the Peruvian companies, through which it will monitor developments with Senasa Peru. The goal is to contribute to the upcoming audit scheduled for July, increasing the number of Brazilian companies evaluated and, consequently, approved.
Currently, seven Brazilian companies have already been approved through documentation, and another eight are under review. If progress continues swiftly, the next audit could include between 15 and 18 companies.
This initiative from Brazilian Renderers came at a timely moment: on April 17, Brazil and Peru concluded a sanitary agreement allowing the export of Brazilian poultry oil for animal feed. Peru has been a priority market for Brazilian Renderers, which has conducted strategic efforts in the country since 2021. With a population of 34 million and a steadily growing livestock sector, the country’s demand for animal nutrition inputs continues to rise.
Brazilian Renderers
Since 2012, ABRA and ApexBrasil have promoted the Brazilian Renderers project with the objective of promoting exports from the Animal Rendering sector – meal, fat, blood products and palatabiliy ehancers, and hydrolyzed protein of animal origin. Through participation in fairs, workshops and other special actions of commercial promotion, the projects value attributes of the animal rendering industry and its products – such as quality, health status and sustainability of production – and value the international brands of products, fostering new business for Brazilian exporters.
To learn more visit: brazilianrenderers.com
About ABRA
ABRA is an entity that represents the industries in the animal rendering sector that produce meal, fat, blood products and palatabiliy ehancers, and hydrolyzed protein of animal origin. It is a non-profit entity. It was founded in 2006 and works to promote its members, disseminate actions aimed at the segment, mediate the relationship with other entities and government agencies, in addition to fostering the generation of business in the national and international market.
For more information, visit: abra.ind.br
About ApexBrasil
The Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (ApexBrasil) acts to promote Brazilian products and services abroad and attract foreign investments to strategic sectors of the Brazilian economy.
The Agency carries out diversified commercial promotion actions aimed at promoting exports and valuing Brazilian products and services abroad, such as prospective and commercial missions, business rounds, support for the participation of Brazilian companies in large international fairs, and visits by foreign buyers and opinion-makers to know the Brazilian productive structure, among other business platforms that also aim to strengthen the Brazil brand. ApexBrasil also acts in a coordinated manner with public and private actors to attract foreign direct investments (FDI) to Brazil, focusing on strategic sectors for the development of the competitiveness of Brazilian companies and the country.
To learn more, visit: https://apexbrasil.com.br/