COPASIL

Copasil is a manufacturer of precipitated silica (synthetic silicon dioxide), which is used in the following industries: tires, rubber, chemicals, agrochemicals and fertilizers, food, oral care (toothpaste), cosmetics and animal nutrition... In 2003 an affiliate company was installed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 2012, construction for a new Copasil factory started in Indaiatuba, Brazil, and operations opened in February of 2016, making Diatom/Copasil the biggest silicate manufacturer in Latin America... The founder of the group, Gaetano Bonifacio, started sodium silicate production in Argentina in 1956. The first 300 tons produced were supplied to William Chemicals.