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On March 21 Giacomello, Taffarel & Cia Ltda is established. The company started its activities as a wooden barrel manufacturer for the wine industry of the region. Approximately 30 collaborators were part of the company.
1952. It changes its corporation name to Taffarel & Cia Ltda.
It begins to be called Tanoaria Bento Gonçalves Ltda.
Presidente Castelo Branco visitando a Fenavinho (Sr. Laurindo Nilson Diretor Presidente).
It changes its corporation name to Tanoaria Bento Gonçalves SA, barrels are first exported to Uruguay and countries in Central America.
The wine industry starts to change the wine packaging replacing the wooden barrels.
The corporation name becomes Madem SA Indústria e Comércio de Madeiras e Embalagens. They begin to produce boxes and plywood packing and wooden reels, in order to replace the wooden barrels.
The construction of the branch in Rio Negro, Paraná, is started, with a 3,800m² plant and a 10,000m² area for future expansion, manufacturing wooden reels in industrial scale. The first pinus seedlings are planted in Rio Negro and Mostardas, in Rio Grande do Sul.
1975 – Presidente Ernesto Geisel visitando a Mostra do Mobiliário (Sr. Gino Mazzocato Diretor Superintendente e Sr. Laurindo Nilson Diretor Presidente).
Madem builds two sawmills, one in Rio Negro and another in Bituruna, Paraná.
Participação da Madem na Fenavinho.
The first containers with reels are exported to Europe.
A new furniture factory is built, moving its head office to Bento Gonçalves, Rio Grande do Sul.
It starts manufacturing furniture, with 100% of the production aimed at exports.
Presidente João Figueiredo visitando a Movelsul (Sr. Gino Mazzocato Diretor Presidente, Sr. Paulo Barros Diretor Comercial, Sr. Darci Poletto Gerente Comercial).
It builds a company in Mostardas, in Rio Grande do Sul, with a modern sawmill and drying kilns.
Madem builds a new furniture factory with advanced technology, moving its head office to Garibaldi, Rio Grande do Sul.
The Recycling and Assembly Center is open in Sorocaba, São Paulo.
The worldwide expansion project is started with the opening of Euromadem, a reel distributing company in Spain.
The first industrial unit is open abroad, located in Calaf, Barcelona, Spain.
Madem decides to close down its furniture unit due to the exchange rate crisis and the Chinese competition, focusing completely on plywood and wood cable reels and stretch films.
• Implementation of new industrial units begins: Chattanooga/TN – USA, Bahrain, Manama – Middle East.
• The company's planning indicates the opening of another five factories on all continents by 2012.
• Madem Reels USA, located in Chattanooga, TN, begins operations.
• Madem Reels USA opens its first distribution in Culloden/WV and outsources distribution centers in New Jersey, North Caroline and Texas.
• Madem Gulf WLL starts construction of its factory with production forecast in March 2009.
• Madem Romania SRL is officially opened and production is expected to start in April 2009.
• Madem in Mostardas starts plywood production with an investment of US$ 8 million.
• Madem starts production in Bahrain and Romênia.
• Another 10 distribution centers will open by 2010.
• Madem Reels USA opens new deposits in Carrolton/GA and Meriden/CT.
• Madem in Mostardas starts plywood production with an investment of US$ 8 million.
• Madem opens Ecological Park in Rio Negro/PR – Brazil.
• Madem sells its operations in the US, Romania and Mustards. In the plastics area, it starts a partnership with its affiliate Aleplast (www.aleplast.com.br) concentrating operations on Garibaldi/RS - BR.
• Madem opens her division “Madem Máquinas” and innovates in the fully automated production of reels.
• New US factory opens in Tarboro, NC, a joint venture with local traditional manufacturer Moorecraft Reels. The new company is Madem-Moorecraft Reels USA Inc .
• Opening of the distribution center in Barcarena/PA, BR.
• Opening of the distribution center in Williamsport/PA, USA.
• New factory opened in México and Colômbia.
• Opening of the distribution center in Houston/TX – USA
• New line of wood pellets in Bahrain.
• Opening of the company MADEM MINAS, Poços de Caldas/MG – BR
• Opening of the distribution center in Culloden/WV – USA
• New line of pellets in Rio Negro/PR – BR
• Opening of distribution center in West Chester/OH – USA
• Opening of distribution center in Newnan/GA – USA
• New US factory opens in Denton, TX.
• Madem Gulf Ind - Bahrain received the visit of Mr. Alberto Fonseca, Brazilian Ambassador, and Mrs. Daniella Chaves, The First Secretary of the recently opened first Brazilian Embassy in Manama - Bahrain.
