Atlas Atlas Electric Appliances

ATLAS INDUSTRIES
APPLIANCES LTD.

BR 158, KM 508- Petrycoski District
85501-970 - Pato Branco - PR

Atlas Electric Appliances Industry Ltd
A family business that develops and breaks boundaries

Atlas Electronic Appliances is a Brazilian, familiar company, which follows the same commitment and action line of its pioneers, continuously produces quality to provide to the customers large satisfaction, developing itself, its employees, suppliers and community.

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Know our history, decade by decade.

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When It All Began!

1930 -The young Theophilo Petrycoski, encouraged by his father Francezek Petrycoski, learned the art of metallurgy with an Italian master in Nova Bassano, the state of Rio Grande do Sul.

The Family

1940 - He met Maria Luisa Crestani, whom he married and set up a metallurgic with about 70 square meters in gross wood structure and soil floor, beside the family house in Erebango in northern of Rio Grande do Sul.
1945 - The activity prospered little by little . The family with the help of three employees produced drays, chariots, weapons, grates, agricultural implements for animal traction, horseshoes and began to repair and build stoves with molds purchased in Porto Alegre (RS).
1949 - Seeing the huge migration of residents from Rio Grande do Sul to Parana Theóphilo decided to see what attracted so many people and decided to move to Vila Nova, Clevelandia district (now Pato Branco).

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1950 - Year when Atlas Appliances history begins. It is founded in Vila Nova The Theóphilo Petrycoski and Co Ltd. metalwork and blacksmithing, installed in a wooden house with area of 80 m², in one side of the house they made repairs and production of semi handcraft stoves and in the other side they produced and sold molds, pans, building materials, ceramics, household items and horseshoes. 1952 - Theóphilo Petrycoski and his family cooperated in the process of Vila Nova emancipation, which became known as Pato Branco. Alongside, some pieces of the wood-burning stoves were plated and enameled, with support from third-party in Porto Alegre (RS). 1953 - The Petrycoski wood-burning stove won first place in the Metallurgical Industry Expo and in the International Coffee Congress in Curitiba, during the celebrations of the Centenary of Paraná State. 1955 Were produced about 40 stoves per month, with hard work which started at dawn and was usually extended up to 9:00 o’clock in the evening. 1956 - On a trip to Porto Alegre, where he used to buy part of the raw material, Theóphilo won a car in a raffle. Having the vision to expand the business, he sold the vehicle and acquired new tools.
1957 -The company made the sale of a wood-burning stove on October 8th 1957, to Luiz Giglioli, with the purchase receipt number 1149, now it is in the Company's historical collection.

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1960 - Social responsibility the introductory page to all projects

1962 - There was a lack of steel that it was very expensive, requiring the Company to acquire lots of rolled rejected that were fixed in Pato Branco.

1963 - The industry has moved to new premises in the street Brasília, 800 square meters.

1968 - The sale of products, hardware, utilities, household and building materials began to lose ground to the production of stoves, which became the core business.

1969 - An oven capable of enamelling about 50 stoves per month has been used, leaving aside the outsourcing.

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1970 - company produced about 300 stoves a month

1971 - As the electric power was very expensive, making the enameling impossible, a small hydroelectric plant in Mariopolis, located 17 km from Pato Branco, was purchased. In the same year Irani Petrycoski became President of the Company.

1972 - The Mufatto family ordered 500 stoves, which was motive for celebration.

1979 - The new corporate name appeared: Petrycoski Stoves Industry Ltd. Valdir Petrycoski - also son of the founder – became the president of the industry.

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1980 - The new matrix equipment arrived which allowed the production of stoves in series and there was also progress with the purchase of a new enameling furnace.
1981 - It was concluded the transfer of the structure to the new address: BR 158, Km 521, where it still remains installed.
1985 - Claudio Petrycoski, became the president of the company. 1986 - The Crusade Plan ensured good results for the industry which produced more than two thousand stoves monthly. 1988- The production of about 50 units per day of gas stoves, models REALCE, PIA and PIAZITO began, in an area of 10.6 square meters.

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1991 - The exportation of stoves to Latin America started.

1993 -The industry was developing. Were produced about 250 gas stoves and 90 wood-burning stoves per day.

1994 - The Company won from the Commercial and Industrial Association of Paraná the "Excellence Enterprise Award".

1995 - The production increased to 500 gas stoves and 99 wood-burning stoves per day.

1996 -The Petrycoski Stoves Industry Ltd. was renamed Atlas Electric Appliances Industry Ltd.

1997 - Atlas Electric Appliances won the Top Marketing Award, awarded by ADVB-PR (Sales Managers Association of Brazil, Paraná), with the Phoenix Project.

1998 - It started the manufacture of gas stoves with six burners, Euro and Tropical lines. All stoves with more modern design and innovation which had a great acceptance in the market.

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2000 -Atlas celebrated half century of development and was positioned as the largest stoves industry in the south of the country, including exporting its products to over 30 countries.

2001 -Three thousand stoves were produced daily when Claudio Petrycoski won the medal and the diploma of The Industry Merit awarded by FIEP (Federation of Industries of Paraná State).

2002 - Atlas Electric Appliances was the only one in Brazil to achieve the maximum "A" concept on Conpet/Inmetro and Eletros evaluations on the whole products line , during the launching of the Security and Economy Certification Program. It won for the second time the "Top Marketing Award", awarded by ADVB, on the João de Barro Project.

2003 -The production of dishwashers, washing machines and clothes dryers began in Caxias do Sul, at the structure formerly owned by Enxuta, traditional company of home appliances from the south. An assembly plant in Feira de Santana – BA was implemented.

2005 - Strategic repositioning led it to transfer 100% of the production of stoves and Water Line products to Pato Branco.

2006 - OIt obtained new recognition from the National Program for Rational Use of Oil and Natural Gas - Conpet – by the exemplary cost savings of its products.

2007 - The production of stoves was managed separately, by Petrycoski Stoves Industry.

2008 -During Claudio’s presidency the new generation begins the directive action, Theophilo’s grandchildren at the company direction, leaded by Socrates Petrycoski at Supervision Atlas Electric Appliances Supervision.

2009 - Atlas Electric Appliances, after extensive marketing study presents a new line of stoves U. Top, with different design and attributes.