Piracicaba
Americannoun
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The company that makes the brand says it is adding another shift at its factory in Piracicaba, Brazil.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 4, 2020
In the months before the Zika outbreak in the Americas, a British company announced that it had conducted a successful trial in the Brazilian city of Piracicaba, cutting the number of mosquito larvae by 82%.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2016
In April, Oxitec began its “friendly Aedis aegypti program” in partnership with the city of Piracicaba, in southeast Brazil.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 1, 2016
Every weekday at 7 a.m., a van drives slowly through the southeastern Brazilian city of Piracicaba carrying a precious cargo — mosquitoes.
From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2016
In 1885 Evaristo Conrado Engelberg of Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil, invented an improved coffee huller which, three years later, was patented in the United States.
From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)
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