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Raízen S.A.
World's largest sugarcane processor; a 50-50 JV of Shell (now wholly owned by Cosan) and Cosan; operates 35 sugar-energy mills in Brazil producing ~4 Mt/yr of sugar and 2+ billion liters of ethanol; controls ~1.2M hectares of sugarcane area.
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Brazil Center-South Sugarcane Region — São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Paraná →
BRSão Paulo / Minas Gerais · mine
Brazil's Center-South sugarcane production zone produces ~90% of Brazilian sugarcane (~600 MT/year at peak); São Paulo state alone produces ~55% of national total; crop is harvested April-November (dry season); susceptible to winter frost (June-July) and seasonal drought cycles (La Niña years). The Center-South simultaneously produces ~48% of world sugar output and 30% of world fuel ethanol.
Raízen São Paulo State Mill Cluster →
BRSão Paulo State, Brazil · processing_plant
35 mills in São Paulo state and Mato Grosso do Sul; combined crushing capacity ~85 Mt cane/yr; produces sugar and flex-fuel ethanol from the same cane in real time based on price signals
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Sugar Production & Export
35%Ethanol (Anhydrous & Hydrous)
30%Fuel Distribution (Shell Branded)
25%Bioenergy
7%Ag Services & Inputs
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Did you know2023
Raízen is a Shell-Cosan joint venture — the same company that pumps Brazilian gasoline also crushes ~8% of the world's sugar and is the largest private sugarcane processor on earth Raízen was formed in 2011 as a 50/50 JV between Shell (for its Brazilian fuel distribution network) and Cosan (for its sugar-ethanol mills). Shell sold its stake back to Cosan in 2022, but the integrated model persists: the same company that controls ~6,000 fuel stations in Brazil (Shell-branded) also operates 35 mills crushing ~85 Mt of cane/yr. It produces both anhydrous ethanol blended into Brazilian gasoline and sugar exported globally — making its output decisions simultaneously energy and food-price moves.
Raízen Investor Relations ↗Origin2023
Raizen was created in 2011 as a 50-50 joint venture between Shell (Anglo-Dutch oil major) and Cosan (Brazilian sugarcane conglomerate). Shell had been trying to build a sustainable aviation fuel and biofuels business, and Cosan had sugarcane processing scale but lacked capital and global distribution. The JV also combined their Brazilian fuel distribution networks, giving Raizen control of approximately 8,000 Shell-branded fuel stations across Brazil -- the largest branded fuel retail network in Brazil. Shell was therefore simultaneously the world's largest seller of fossil gasoline in Brazil (through the Shell stations) and one of the largest ethanol producers (through Raizen's mills), using the ethanol it produced to dilute the gasoline it sold. Cosan has since been buying out Shell's stake, and as of 2024 Cosan holds a majority stake in Raizen through various transactions.
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