By Brazil Stock Guide – Brazil’s state development bank BNDES approved a 47.5 million-real loan to C.Vale Cooperativa Agroindustrial to expand and upgrade operations in Paraná and Mato Grosso, according to the bank’s news agency.
The financing covers 75% of the planned 63.2 million reais in investments. The project is also expected to generate 24.7 million reais in demand for Brazil’s machinery and equipment industry, BNDES said. C.Vale is a cooperative and does not have a publicly traded stock ticker.
Part of the funds will be used to expand C.Vale’s grain storage capacity in western Paraná. The cooperative plans to build two new grain receiving units in the districts of Vila Nova and São Luiz do Oeste, both in Toledo.
Each unit will cover 2,400 square meters and will have initial storage capacity of 800 tons, with room for future expansion. The facilities will include grain classification buildings, sample collectors, truck weighing infrastructure, offices for members and clients, and storage areas for inputs such as seeds, fertilizers, animal feed and agrochemicals.
The funds will come from the Program for Construction and Expansion of Warehouses, known as PCA, and from Prodecoop, a program aimed at adding value to agricultural production through cooperatives. Both are part of Brazil’s 2025/2026 crop financing plan.
C.Vale will also upgrade its poultry slaughterhouse in Palotina, Paraná, with new conveyor belts and dosing silos. In Mato Grosso, investments will focus on adapting units to workplace health and safety standards, including anti-slip steps, confined-space access hatches, air renewal systems, machinery grounding and protection against lightning strikes.
BNDES President Aloizio Mercadante said the project would support regional economies and improve C.Vale’s operating scale.
“Além de impactar positivamente a economia do entorno dos municípios onde estão as unidades, o investimento, entre outros benefícios, vai ajudar a produzir ganhos de escala para a estrutura da C.Vale, e contribuir para a redução de perdas e o aproveitamento de melhores condições de comercialização dos produtos, em total alinhamento com a política do governo do presidente Lula de redução do déficit da capacidade de armazenagem do país,” Mercadante said.
In English, Mercadante said the investment will help local economies, increase scale at C.Vale, reduce losses and improve marketing conditions for agricultural products, in line with the Lula administration’s policy to reduce Brazil’s grain storage deficit.
C.Vale President Alfredo Lang said the investments will “permitir o aumento da capacidade de armazenagem, agilizar o recebimento de grãos, ajustar unidades às normas de saúde e segurança do trabalho e modernizar o abatedouro de aves.”
Translated, Lang said the funds will allow the cooperative to expand storage capacity, speed up grain receiving, adjust units to workplace health and safety rules and modernize the poultry slaughterhouse.
Founded in 1963 and headquartered in Palotina, C.Vale operates in Paraná, Santa Catarina, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Goiás and Rio Grande do Sul, as well as in Paraguay. It is Brazil’s second-largest single agricultural cooperative.
The cooperative has 15,000 employees and 30,500 members, most of them small rural producers. It operates across soybeans, corn, wheat, cassava, milk, fish, pork and poultry processing, as well as seeds, animal feed and modified cassava starch. Its network includes 201 units, including slaughterhouses, grain receiving facilities, feed factories, fuel stations, supermarkets and industrial plants.
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