Formerly called Bandeira (Flag) sugarcane factory, it was founded in 1889 in the municipality of Ipojuca through a decree to Bandeira & Siqueira granting permission to install a factory.
Later, the brothers José, João and Francisco Dourado da Costa Azevedo bought the factory, which was in financial jeopardy, and renamed it ‘Ipojuca’.
In 1914, José Maria Carneiro da Cunha became a partner in the company. The enterprise wasn’t a success, with the factory then being sold to the agriculturist Severino Barbosa Mariz, who again sold it, due to not having sufficient capital, to José Dourado da Costa Azevedo.
In 1929 the Ipojuca factory had the capacity to process 350 tonnes of sugarcane and produce 2,000 litres of ethanol in 22 hours. It had 14 fields, 30km of railways, 3 locomotives, 58 cars and wagons, a workers’ village with a hundred houses and maintained a school with 25 enrolled students. During the milling period around 50 workers were employed at the factory. The transportation of sugarcane and firewood was by its own railway, and sugar and ethanol by waterways.
The factory later became owned by Dourado, Monteiro Ltd (Antônio Dourado Neto and Armando de Queiroz Monteiro). In 1944 Armando Monteiro left the group and bought the Cucaú factory.
In 1963, with the death of Antônio Dourado Neto, his sons Antônio José Dubeux Dourado, Francisco Luiz Dubeux Dourado and Luiz Antônio Dubeux Dourado assumed the direction of the factory.
Recife, 7 August 2003.
(Updated on 9 September 2009).
Translated by Peter Leamy, January 2012.
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