The Nortox was founded on April 14, 1954, in Apucarana - PR. Began his career as formulator industry insecticide powder to combat the coffee berry borer, a time when the coffee plantations were a major source of wealth in Brazil, covering a continuous area stretching from the northern banks of the Pioneer River Paraná. In the early '60s, the Nortox entered the market of insecticides for cotton crops. In 1966, became a corporation organized in the national capital. In that same decade, the need t...