Mr Takuya Kuwahara

President, AMCEL, Brazil

Takuya Kuwahara is the President of Amapa Florestal e Celurose S.A. (AMCEL) since April of 2009. AMCEL own 306,000 ha of land in northern part of Brazil and planting Eucalyptus and exporting wood chips to Europe and Japan.
AMCEL started the business in 1976 and in Dec/2006, two Japanese companies, Nippon Paper Industries and Marubeni Corporation, jointly acquired AMCEL.
Takuya Kuwahara joined Marubeni Corporation, major trading house in Japan and No.1 wood chip trader in the world, in 1990. Since the beginning of his carrier in Marubeni, he has been in charge of wood chip trading and spent four years at west coast of United States to handle softwood wood chips export from US.
In 2009, after accumulating 20 years of experience in wood chips market, he arrived at Brazil as a President of AMCEL.

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