Quattor was a Brazilian petrochemical company headquartered in Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...

. Founded on June 12, 2008, Quattor was the second largest petrochemicals in Brazil

Brazil

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, behind only the Braskem

Braskem

Braskem is a Brazilian petrochemical company headquartered in São Paulo. The company is the largest petrochemical in the Americas by production capacity and the fifth largest in the world...

 and one of the largest petrochemical of the Americas

Americas

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. In 2009 the company was incorpored by Braskem, the largest Brazilian petrochemical and one of the most largest in the world.

Quattor was result of the union of assets UNIPAR(60%) and Petrobras

Petrobras

Petróleo Brasileiro or Petrobras is a semi-public Brazilian multinational energy corporation headquartered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is the largest company in Latin America by market capitalization and revenue, and the largest company headquartered in the Southern Hemisphere by market...

(40%), and now the set of five companies, Quattor Participações SA, Quattor Basic Chemicals SA (ex-Union Petrochemical SA), SA Quattor Petroquímica (formerly Suzano Petroquímica SA), Polyethylenes Union SA and Rio Polímeros SA.


The company has 11 production units located in three Brazilian states: Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...

, São Paulo

São Paulo

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 and Bahia

Bahia

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, in addition to the support office in São Paulo

São Paulo

São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...

. It also has laboratories Quality and Development Centers, which assist in the development and improvement of its products. All this facilities have been transferred to Braskem.