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The oldest sugarmill in Peru

Cartavio S.A.A. is an agribusiness dedicated to the cultivation, processing and industrialization of sugarcane; as well as to marketing of their main business’ products and byproducts, such as sugars (refined, white and brown), alcohol, molasses, bagasse, etc.

It is located 55 kilometers north of Trujillo, the spring city, at kilometer 600 of the Panamerican highway in the province of Ascope, Libertad region. This sugarmill, the oldest in the country, is part of Grupo Gloria from May 3, 2007. It has an area of 7902.95 hectares and its fields are irrigated by the river Chicama.

It has over 6,500 hectares under cultivation, daily grind exceeds 6,500 tons of cane and sugar production exceeds 700 tons per day. Its sugar mill works with two sinks and a mill. It also has a distillery with a capacity to produce 18 million liters of alcohol per year.

Cartavio S.A.A. is noted for its extraction efficiency, recovery and juice processing thanks to its technological modernization, the processes strict quality control and its staff preparation.

 

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From San Francisco de Buenos Aires to the hacienda Cartavio

In 1782, Don Domingo Cartavio acquired from the inspector Don Baltasar de Ocampo 90 bushels (59.4 hectares) of land in the Chicama Valley in order to found a large hacienda which grew to 314 bushels (200.24 hectares). This estate is called Cartavio, formerly known as San Francisco de Buenos Aires.

There were other owners until 1870 when Cartavio Sugar Company appears acquiring the estate as a debt cancellation from Guillermo Alzamora, one of the last owners. In 1872 it became the property of Grace, represented by Juan W. Grace.

In 1890, after the war with Chile, a subsidiary WR Grace and Co. declared the property of the estate Cartavio with 606.6 hectares.

During this period, through investment and state of the art technology, the hacienda reached a significant development in domestic sugar production.

During the military government reform in the seventies, Cartavio was taken over by its workers associated in cooperatives and agricultural societies of social interest, with strong government presence in the board and shareholders.

In 1996, the government enacted the DL 802, Financial and Economic Sanitation Law for sugar agribusiness firms and Cartavio changed its social model to a corporative one. Two years later, Azucagro S.A. acquired the major shareholders stake of the Agroindustrial Complex Cartavio S.A.A., initiating an investment and modernization process placing it as a leader in the Peruvian sugar industry.

In May 2007, Azucagro S.A. transferred all of its shares to Sugar Corporation of Peru SA, a company belonging to Grupo Gloria, which since then assumed the leadership of the company.

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Products within the highest quality standards

The company develops its products within the highest standards of quality, as evidenced by the quality certification ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 22000.

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