Internal social investments reached, in 2006, R$ 63.9 million (not including social contributions), benefiting more than eight thousand employees. Amongst these, it is noteworthy to highlight the total resources applied in health and safety, two fronts for which Tupy, each year, directs more of its attention. In health, it was R$ 26.4 million, a great part of which was used to subsidize the extended health plan that is paid totally by the company and covers about 13 thousand dependents. In safety, the total was R$ 5.4 million.

Increased attention on these fronts has resulted in a better quality of life for the employees and has made the individuals become more committed to themselves. The fiscal year is characterized by a reduction of almost 50% in the number of industrial accidents, including the typical accidents, with or without leave, on route to the plant and the other causers of occupational illnesses.

Tupy is a company that modernizes itself every day and needs that its employees keep pace with this, that means always becoming more capable and qualified. For this reason, the Company maintains schools of basic and middle education, offers an infinite number of technical courses on its own premises and still guarantees a program of partial scholarships for technical and superior courses, equivalent to 50% of the expenses of each student. The investments in education, qualification and professional development reached R$ 1.7 million.

Amongst the many investments, one needs to highlight the PPR, Profit Sharing Program, that in the fiscal year resulted in R$ 21 million, permitting that each employee be rewarded with an average additional gain of 1.85 of their monthly wage.

Another initiative that has distinguished Tupy is the “Create Program”, which gives incentive to continuous improvements in the processes as well as in the work environment, by means of proposals that the employees themselves make, in work groups. With similar methodology to QCC´s - Quality Control Circles, the “Create Program” received in 2006 contributions from about 1,500 employees and accounted for 13 thousand implemented improvements. This initiative, recognized by the company in the form of prizes, confirmed once again Tupy’s presence in the Ranking of Corporative Entrepreneurship, initiative of the IBIE - Brazilian Institute of Intrapreneurship, in partnership with the magazine Exame.

Still in the internal scope, one fact particularly marked the year of 2006. A traditional sponsor of sports, Tupy and its employees were able to celebrate a soccer world cup, in contrast to the great majority of Brazilians. Employee-athletes of the company won, in July, the World-Wide Worker Soccer Championship, disputed in Austria.

The participation of Tupy’s team in this competition was due to the previous results achieved in the games organized in Brazil by SESI - Social Service of the Industry. SESI, as well as Tupy, stimulates, above all, the values of sports, such as overcoming challenges and having team spirit, believing that these reflect in both the day-to-day work as well as in the adoption of healthy habits, that are valid for your entire life.

By the commitment to its employees as well as to the community and the environment, Tupy, for the third time, was awarded, in 2006, with the Citizen Company Seal, granted by the Municipal City Hall of Joinville.

Amongst the external social actions, one highlights the “Alphabetization of the Workforce”, a program that the Company has been developing since 1998, in partnership with the City of Joinville - Secretary of Education, that aims to eradicate illiteracy in the city. The Alphabetization Workforce permitted that, in 2006, 467 people had access to a classroom and the first lessons to learn how to read, to write and to carry out the four basic math operations.

Still in the scope of the community of Joinville, city that headquarters the company, Tupy continued supporting the “Child Mission”, a program led by the Lutheran Church and that takes care of 160 children in situations of social risk, offering them a second period of learning and recreation. It also gave continuity to the “Solidarity Gymnastics”, a project led by a Physical Education professional, and that takes care of low-income people, in neighborhood associations and parochial halls, at eight distinct places in the city.

In the historical records of improvements that Tupy has been promoting since the beginning of the decade, the year of 2006 will be marked as the year of great solutions for the treatment of effluents. Two new stations, that together have the capacity to treat 48m3 per hour of industrial and sanitary effluents, entered into operation during the year, in the plant located in Joinville. As the land that the manufacturing park occupies has 1 million square meters and is totally flat, just to catch the effluents and to take them to the treatment stations, it was necessary to install 10 kilometers of pipes and 17 elevation points.

One of the differentials of the new stations is the fact that they operate in a closed circuit, which means that all the treated water comes back to be reutilized. Moreover, in treating by physical-chemical and biological processes the sanitary effluent, originating from bathrooms and kitchens that handle the seven thousand employees and hundreds of other people who circulate daily in its installations, the company offers a great service to the sanitation system of the city.

In 2006, Tupy also concluded the second part of its own industrial landfill, by extending the capture points of particles with the introduction of new exhaustion systems, and still found a solution for reutilizing determined residues, that were previously deposited in a landfill, are now reutilized generating economy of water and raw material. In all, at the two manufacturing plants, the investments in environment totaled R$ 24.3 million in the year.