The first processing factory of the company was built early in the 70's, at the same place where the office is based.
     It processes shelled nuts, which are sold during the whole year as "Mixed Nuts", small cans containing several kinds of different types of nuts: Brazil nuts, cashew nuts, almonds, and peanuts, among others. Shelled Brazil nut also serves chocolate industry (its taste in chocolate cover is insuperable), also being used for ice-cream toppings, cakes and cookies, and sold in bulk packages.
     In the same place where the office is based, the company has its own lab to analyze and control the quality of all its products, under the surveillance of a Chemist, professor of Pará Federal University, and a Food Technologist.
     At the beginning of the 80's, the company inaugurated its second factory to process dehydrated unshelled nuts, another product quite well accepted within both foreign and domestic markets.
     In the United States, for example, this product is sold especially in two different seasons: Thanksgiving Day and Christmas.

     Benedito Mutran employs about 800 people - 80% women - full and part time employees. Part time employees are the so-called "seasonal", hired from the beginning of the processing, in March/April, through the product finishing, which varies from October to November, according to the harvest.
    The company has its own team specialized in quality management who trains its employees in personal hygiene, good manufacturing practices, laboral safety, and also ISO 9001 standard and HACCP, at least twice a year.
    For many of them, Benedito Mutran represents the access door to labor market, their first job. There are employees who have worked for over 30 years in the company, whose statements on their relationship with the company make us proudful, as they attribute to their job the possibility of having their own homes and providing proper education to their children and grandchildren.

     Second and third generation controlling Benedito Mutran: Benedito Mutran Filho, Benedito Mutran Neto and Rodrigo Prantera Mutran.

     Benedito Mutran Filho began working with his father in Brazil nut commerce in 1963. Three years later, father and son incorporated Benedito Mutran & Cia. Ltda. In 1999, the company diversified its Foreign Trade activities, also exporting black pepper. Besides these activities, Benedito Mutran Filho is also a recognized and well-respected cattle-breeder all over the country and overseas, an activity he began to develop in 1973, when he settled Cedro, Maria Bonita and Espírito Santo ranches with his own funds, all of them to the south of Pará state. In this activity, he awarded several national prizes and titles, the most important being the Year's Cattle-Breeder Award (1999), the Industry Business Leader of the Forum of Leaders award, granted by Gazeta Mercantil newspaper (2002), and two Best Brazilian Nelore Cattle-Breeder awards, granted by the Brazilian Association of Nelore Cattle-Breeders/ACNB. He was the 2001 Year's Businessman, maximum award of the Pará state Entrepreneurs, granted by the Pará State Commercial Association; received the Award of Merit from the Pará State Legislature, in 2000; and in 2004, the Golden Medal of the Brazilian Association of Zebu Cattle-breeders, and the Uberaba Citizen Title from the City Council of Uberaba, Minas Gerais state. Since the 80's, Benedito Mutran Filho has participated and promoted auctions of cattle elite genetics throughout the country, playing a national highlighting role within Brazilian cattle-breeding.

     Bendito Mutran Neto works at Benedito Mutran & Cia. Ltda. since 1995, reaching the company Board of Directors after working in every division, especially exports, administration and financial. He is an Economic Science Graduate, postgraduate in Business Management by the Getúlio Vargas Foundation, fluently speaking and writing English. He has traveled to foreign countries several times to contact importers, participating of the World Congress of nuts, Barcelona, Spain, promoted by the International Nut Council (INC) in 2001. He has awarded the Economist's Monograph "Professor Jaime Teixeira" award (Unama, 2000) with the work entitled "Beef productive chain in Pará state".

     Together with his father and brother, Rodrigo Mutran also manages Benedito Mutran & Cia. Ltda.