Management Consulting andthe law firm Campos Fialho Canabrava Borja Andrade Salles Advogados.Thebiotechnology company has created a new kind of fertilizer, called Geofert,made with waste from a nearby aviary breeding farm, and waste from ethanol production,Judice said. The CEO claims the product can improve crop efficiency by 15-20%.Geocicloprojects revenues of about BRL 30m in 2013, by selling 25,000 tons of Geofert,and it already has orders for 90,000 tons this year, Judice said.It is already planninganother round of financing for 2014 from either a domestic or a global PE firm,he said. PE investors should have experience in biotechnology, and should beable to help Geociclo prepare to eventually go public, he said. The capitalraise will be done in two parts to avoid great dilution of the shareholderstakes, the CEO added.Proceeds fromthe second round will be invested in two factories planned for the state of SaoPaulo in 2014, Judice said.Geociclo has aboutBRL 116m (USD 58m) in initial equity invested from the major shareholder, theBrazilian entrepreneur Olavo Monteiro de Carvalho, and loans from thestate-owned development bank BNDES and the development fund Fundo doCentro-Oeste de Desenvolvimento (FCO).Its firstfactory opened in late 2012, and it will start making a profit in 2014, Judicesaid. The two industrial facilities will be able to produce 175,000 tons in2014, the CEO added, noting that Geociclo projects revenues of BRL 300m in2015. Carvalho owns a 93% stake at Geociclo, while Judice, COO KennedyCarvalho, and the CTO, whose name is undisclosed, have a combined stake of 7%.Value USD 58m(Initial equity invested) Stake Value 29%. Source Proprietary Intelligence. Sechilienne Sidec interested in power stations inBrazil Sechilienne Sidec, the listed French utility that islargely owned by private equity group Apax Partners, is planning to makeacquisitions in Brazil, daily Le Monde reported. The report cited JacquesPetry, chairman and chief executive, as saying that the company was looking toacquire power stations operated by sugar groups in Brazil.SechilienneSidec reported revenues of EUR 383m in 2012. Value USD 504m (Sechilienne Sidec revenues in 2012)Stake Value 100%. Source Le Monde/Source ProprietaryIntelligence. Vale undecided on the future of its fertilizerbusiness Vale (VALE3, VALE5: BZ), the Brazilian listed miningcompany, is still undecided on the future of its fertilizer business ValeFertilizantes, Valor Economico reported citing the Vales CEO Murilo Ferreira.Since abandoning its Rio Colorado potassium project in Argentina, the companyhas not devised an alternative strategy for its fertilizer operation, butexpects to do so before Vales strategic planning for 2014 is announced inNovember, the CEO was cited as saying.The itemreported that, according to Ferreira, the sale of the concession license tooperate the Rio Colorado mine will surely take a long time; meanwhile, Valedepends on its shareholders to decide whether or not to seek other potassiumexploration opportunities, the item also cited Ferreira as saying.Source Folha de Sao Paulo. Tecumseh, Embraco and Danfoss agree to USD 41.25m settlement inrefrigerator compressor case Tecumseh, Embraco, a Whirlpool subsidiary, and DanfossFlensburg agreed to pay direct purchasers USD 41.25m to settle allegations ofprice-fixing in the refrigerator compressor action, according to a court filingon 8 May.The agreementwould settle claims made by direct purchasers in 2009 that the settlingdefendants and ACC and Panasonic conspired