AD_MAGAZINE_350

44 November 2018 | AutoData ANNIVERSARY » IOCHPE-MAXION T he family was one of the forty that arrived in Brazil in 1912 from Bessarabia (now Moldova) linked to Russia. It was an initiative from the Jewish Colonization Association, founded in London in 1891 to promote and assist the emigration of Jews to colonies in the South America, notably Brazil and Argentina, and the North America. The association, also known by the acronym ICA, acquired a farm in Rio Grande do Sul, in Quatro Irmãos town, where the Ioschpe family went. One of the main activities promoted there by the association was the wood exploitation, by the abundance of araucarias (a genus of evergreen coniferous trees) in the region. For no other reason, Iochpe-Maxion was born as the Engenho D’água sawmill, an initiative from Gregorio Ioschpe in 1918 . Another member of the family (Salomão) also started working in the wood sector in 1937 . And so Iochpe emerged in 1938 , Brother & Sons, whose members were Gregório, Miguel, Moyses, Salomão and Israel, part of the Iochpe Group. Its main activity was the wood commercialization, beams and pine logs. By Marcos Rozen Everything started with some araucarias Iochpe-Maxion reaches the incredible mark of one century of existence as the biggest Brazilian auto parts company - but a lot has happened in the middle of the way