Swiss Group Presentation

3. INTRODUCTION
• In 1999, in the Japanese city of Kyoto,
189 countries signed an agreement for
reducing gas emissions which generate
the Greenhouse Effect of the globe.
• Because of the Kyoto Treaty,
the demand of non-polluting
fuels engendered the birth
of a new market based on
renewable energetic fuels
replacing fossil fuels.

4. BRAZIL AND KIOTO
• Brazil is included in the Kyoto Treaty and
thanks to its humid and hot climate as also to
its forests extension it has been a pioneer in
large scale projects capable of meeting the
great demand of “clean energy” (biomass) all
over the world.
• The cycle of Carbon arising from forestry
biomass stands for 0% in the scale of gas
emissions causing the Greenhouse Effect
in our Planet.

5. THE ENVIRONMENT
• SWISS GROUP prioritary policy is to
preserve the environment and the
worldwide ecosystem. Under this
vision, Brazil fulfils rigorously and
carefully all the international norms
relating to the extraction of trees.
• All our biomass products come from
planned forests where trees cutting
is duly authorized by the authorities
• After cutting the trees, we re-plant
the forest in order to guarantee the
renewal cycle of vegetation in our
planet.

6. OUR OBJECTIVE
• SWISS GROUP prioritary policy is to preserve the
environment and the worldwide ecosystem. Under
this vision, Brazil fulfils rigorously and carefully all
the international norms relating to the extraction of
trees.
• All our biomass products come from scheduled
forests and trees cut is duly authorized by the
authorities .
• After cutting the trees, we re-plant new trees in
order to guarantee the renewal cycle of vegetation
in our planet.

7. OUR BIOMASS
• For the production of wood-chips and pellets SWISS
GROUP has available huge quantities of forests with
Eucalyptus and Pinus spread all over the South
American countries: Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Argentina,
etc.
• In compliance with all the international norms of
friendly wood products, SWISS GROUP utilizes wood
and farming residues and potentializes them in a
unique system in the world thus creating new
improvements for the market renewable energies.
• Our innovating and unique technology in the world
allows us to increase the calorific power of our
biomass to approximately 5.000 Kcal/Kg and drops
down its moisture to 8%, according to the kind of
trees.

8. SWISS GROUP OFFICE
São Paulo/Brazil
Swiss Group office is located in a very quiet region of São Paulo city and it is
surrounded by nature and silence which help the concentration of the staff.
Here is the brain of the company where decision-making occurs.

9. SWISS GROUP OFFICE
São Paulo
It is here that all the intellectual activity is carried out: projects, engineering plans, bio-forestry studies
and researches, new inventions, business plans, calculations and pluridisciplinar meetings to give the
guide-lines to the technical teams.

10. SWISS GROUP INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
THE INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX UNDER CONSTRUCTION

11. SWISS GROUP INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
Civil Engineering Chart
Wood Chipping, Pellet Manufacture, Wood Pellet industry, Biomass Potentialization, Wood Extracts and by-
products, Dryers construction, Agro-forestry pellets, New Products, Trucks Parking, Storage and Silos,
Biomass Research Center, Administration, Bio-forestry University.

12. SWISS GROUP INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
Implantation Land
With an area of 250.000 m2 the land of Jambeiro where Swiss Group Industrial Complex
will be implanted is surrounded of enormous forests of Eucalyptus and it is at 60 km of the S.
Sebastião port/S. Paulo/Brazil.

13. THE LOGISTIC
• SWISS GROUP relies on a very good logistic structure offered
by the Brazilian network of highroads, railways and ports all
over the country. We are organizing further structures in
several European countries so as to be near the clients and
give them a comfortable assistance abroad.

14. SWISS GROUP LOGISTIC
SWISS GROUP INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

15. OTHER COMPANIES OF THE GROUP

16. SWISS GROUP OF COMPANIES FORESTAL
Chile

17. SWISS GROUP OF COMPANIES FORESTAL
Chile
The conveyor belt reaches the vessel at
800 m distance from the deck
From Froward Port in the city of Puchoco (Chile), SWISS GROUP OF COMPANIES
FORESTAL CHILE is preparing exports to Asia and Europe. The port of Puchoco is
extremely well structured for heavy shipments and Swiss Group has been allowed a
large space for stocking mountains of wood-chips which will be loaded on board
through a complex system of conveyor-belts which run inside of the port and even
800 m sea inwards to reach the vessels.

18. SWISS GROUP OF COMPANIES FORESTAL
Chile
The office in Chile has a competent staff selected by Swiss Group’s President, Edda
Silvestro, and everybody is very concentrated on the execution of the wood-chips
and logs production. The photo shows President Edda Silvestro while visiting the
port and the forest from which will be cut Nitens Eucalyptus.

19. OUR RAW MATERIAL
• With the blend of specific farming products and sawdust duly
potentialized by SWISS GROUP dryer, we obtain a high quality
product which is unique in the world for containing low moisture
and high calorific power.

20. SWISS GROUP PRODUCTS
Wood-Logs Wood-Chips
(for energy or for paper industry) (for energy or for paper industry)

21. SWISS GROUP PRODUCTS
Wood-Pellets Agro-Pellet
(for energy or for paper industry) (for energy or for paper industry)

22. SWISS GROUP PRODUCTS
Wood extracts for fertilizers Potentializer Dryer

23. THE AGRO-FORESTRY PELLET
A SPECIAL ENERGETIC BLEND IDEALIZED BY
SWISS GROUP OF COMPANIES
Agro-pellet are made with wood plus two or three agricultural items at the same time. The
appropriate blend to obtain the maximum energetic pellet needs competence and the
pelletizer machine must be equipped with different specific matrix made by Swiss Group
otherwise you brake the machine.

24. AGRO-FORESTRY PELLET
SUGAR-CANE BAGASSE PEANUT SUNFLOWER
OIL PALM SWEET SORGHUM CASTOR BEAN
COCONUT BAMBOO MAIZE CORNCOB

25. OUR TECNOLOGY
For the scientific and technologic area, SWISS GROUP opened up a new company,
BRASIL ENERGY GROUP, dedicated to the new development of new kinds of
“clean” fuels and to the series production of potentializer dryers.

26. OUR TECNOLOGY
The Potentializer Dryer in construction

27. BRASIL ENERGY GROUP WORKSHOP
FOR DRYERS CONSTRUCTION
The Potentializer Dryer is being constructed at a workshop set in the boundaries of São
Paulo, at one hour from the central office. In October the company will transfer the dryer
to very larger premises in order to start the series construction of hundreds of modules
to be delivered from January 2009 on.

28. THE POTENTIALIZER DRYERS
The staff of the dryer workshop is very
efficient and it is composed by technicians
and engineers: mechanic engineer,
electronic engineer, microwaves engineer,
bio-forestry engineer, low tension
automation engineer, high tension
automation engineer, bio-chemist engineer,
acoustics engineer, ambientalist engineer
and a physician expert in molecular
spectrometry and non-ionizing radiation.
Construction of a FIVE-MODULES Potentializer Dryer which is being adequated to
the international norms of CE - European Community. This 5 modules unit is 9,5
meters long and potentializes 10 tons per hour. The steams will be collected into
a pipe system and re-utilized for by-products.

29. ADVANTAGES OF THE POTENTIALIZER DRYER
The electromagnetic treatment increases the calorific power of the biomass to such extent
that ONE single ton of biomass achieves 77% more capacity of producing thermal and
electric kilowatt. This means:
1. More inflammability of the biomass because the dryer does not carbonize the inner energetic
hydrocarbons;
2. Less necessity of Biomass quantity to achieve more thermal and electric KWh;
3. Less tons of toxic emissions in the atmosphere;
4. Less deforestation to produce thermal and electric power;
5. Less hectares of trees to be purchased;
6. Less number of trucks so less toxic diesel to carry logs;
7. Less harmful action of fungus and bacterias in the air because the dryer sterilizes the biomass;
8. Less presence of residual ashes into the furnace of power plants and industries using fossil coal
because coal causes 40 to 49% residual ashes while potentialized biomass only causes 0,5 to 0,8%;
9. Less emission of sulphur than the current fossil coal which emits 3,5 to 5,8% of this toxic element
while biomass emits only 0,5 to 0,8% (625% less);

30. TECHNICAL DATA OF THE DRYER
• Production per module------------------------------------------- 2 tons per hour
• Drop of Moisture ------------------------------------------------------- From 50% to 8%
• Carbonization ----------------------------------------------------------- No carbonization
• Technology------------------------------------------- Electromagnetic radiation
• Electric tension required ------------------------------- Tri-phase tension, 380V
• Increase of biomass calorific power/KWh---------------- From 77% to 117%

31. PRESIDENT
OF SWISS GROUP OF COMPANIES
President of the company and inventor
of the potentializer dryer through
electromagnetic radiation. She guides
magisterial capacity and uncommon
experience the destiny of the company.
Thanks to her great professional skill she
always finds a positive solution for
everything and the impossible becomes
immediately possible… Edda has been
President of companies abroad which
she founded in Italy, Saudi Arabia, Egypt,
U.S.A., Canada and Switzerland. She
speaks fluently Italian, English, French
and Portuguese and she makes business
all over the world. Edda is Italian and
since her teenage she has been traveling
to several countries because her father
was an Italian Diplomat so she has lived
several years in different nations (Italy,
Turkey, Yugoslavia, France, Tripoli,
Bengasi, Brazil) where she has attended
the local school using the local language.
The assimilation of varied cultures gave
her a universal vision of life which much
EDDA SILVESTRO contributed to give her wide and
multiform way of conducting her
business.

32. General Director of Swiss Group of Companies,
he is a Chemistry graduate of the University of
São Paulo (USP) and a post-graduate in
Industrial Administration from POLITECNICA SP.
He has achieved a good mastery of management
strategies in his previous national and
multinational companies for more than 15 years,
especially in the automotive area. He took on the
biomass energetic activity with much
commitment and with his spirit of organization
and scientific vision he penetrated into the
complexity of the technical matters trying to
orchestrate with skill the multidisciplinary of
biomass subjects. Franco has a global vision of
industrial problems and with his leadership and
FRANCO PARINI capacity of communication he establishes the
necessary connections between the different
departments by stimulating interest, efficiency
and spirit of union.

33. General Coordinator of Swiss Group of
Companies. She is responsible for the elaboration of
Projects, Presentation of the company and for all the
official editorship of Technical Literature based on the
data supplied by the engineering staff .She has had a
brilliant carrier even with the Brazilian and Italian
government because she has been the President of
“Società Dante Alighieri de Rio de Janeiro” and also the
General Coordinator of Congresses CONPAT (Congresso
Nacional de Prevenção de Acidentes do Trabalho)
sponsored by the Presidency of the Republic of Brazil.
For three years she has also been the Press Attaché of
the Italian Consulate of Rio de Janeiro, directly
appointed by the General Consul, Dr. Ignazio Di Pace.
ANNA MARIA
Anna Maria is post-graduate in Literature and has
SILVESTRO
published didactic and cultural books. Anna Maria has a
good background in companies’ organization.

34. Director of Swiss Group of Companies
ever since the foundation of the
company, in 1994. He has attended the
University of Administration at Alvares
Penteado University in São Paulo and
then he joined Swiss Group of Company.
José Roberto is responsible for payments,
budgets, invoices, taxes regulations,
accountancy matters and banking
operations. He is now 54 years old and
he conducts the financial department
with quite a strong rigorousness and
JOSÉ ROBERTO BERÇANI prudence in relation to expenditures.

35. International Marketing Director of Swiss
Group of Company and Fiduciary Representative
of Swiss Group Brazil in Portugal. He has a brilliant
curriculum as Commercial Manager and during his
professional life he has Achieved a great skill in
business strategies. As a matter of fact, he daily
confirms his high talent in marketing and sales.
Two years ago Luis has intermediated the first
sale of Swiss Group Technology to Portugal,
involving a well-known Portuguese Group:
ENERPURA – Energias Limpas S/A. who are now
waiting for the conclusion of the potentializer
dryer. Luis Fortes is now negotiating the transfer
of Swiss Group Technology also with the Eastern
LUIS FORTES
countries of the world and the clients are very
enthusiastic about our special technology.

36. POR UM UM PLANETA MAIS PURO…

37. Elaborado por Luis Fortes em
2009 - São Paulo - Brasil