Imaribo Group was created by the resolve and entrepreneurship of Marino Pisani, who, in the 1930’s, started buying araucarias and selling wood because he believed this natural resource, one of the oldest wealth exploited in Brazil, was a very promising business.

Marino Pisani bought araucarias from landowners, but bringing the wood to large urban centers, especially to São Paulo, posed a major problem.

Instead of giving up, Marino Pisani saw it as a challenge and decided to mill the wood. With this idea in mind, he partnered other local entrepreneurs who joined capital to start the first plant.

In 1943, with a lot of work and resolve, Indústria Madeireira Rio Bonito Ltda started up in Tangará, Santa Catarina State. Marino proved right: the milled wood was well accepted in the market and business started growing.

After his death in1944, Carlos Waldemar and Nelson Pisani, his sons, took over the family business together with the other partners of Imaribo Group.

The following associations and incorporations carried out in the Group triggered an expansion process in the facilities of Santa Catarina and Paraná States, in the milled wood market of São Paulo and in the export to countries worldwide.

The synergy started in the 1940’s by immigrants and their families, who joined capital, assets, entrepreneurship and willingness to work, has built a solid Group that today is a leader in the industry throughout the country.