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Ultrapar Holdings Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the distribution of liquefied petroleum gas, and light fuel and lubricants. The company sells bottled and bulk LPG to residential, commercial, and industrial markets directly, as well as through its retail stores and independent dealers; and distributes gasoline, ethanol, diesel, NGV, fuel oil, kerosene, and lubricants directly, as well as through a network of approximately 3,469 service stations. It also engages in the production and sale of chemicals and petrochemical products, such as ethylene oxide, ethylene glycols, ethanolamines, glycol ethers, and methyl-ethyl-ketone, as well as specialty chemicals that are used in detergents, crop protection chemicals, cosmetics, foods, textiles, leather, oil field chemicals, packaging, paints, and varnishes. In addition, the company offers integrated logistics services for special bulk cargo; and storage for liquid bulk in South America, as well as provides multimodal transportation, ship loading and unloading, operation of pipelines, logistics programming, and installation engineering services. As of December 31, 2008, it operated a fleet of approximately 580 trucks. Further, the company involves in petroleum refining business. It sells its products in Brazil, Latin America, the Far East, Europe, and North America. The company was founded in 1937 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
        
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