Founded in 1950 in the city of Timbó, Santa Catarina, the Germer group began activities as a manufacturer of weaving loom cylinders. In 1969, we started to produce porcelain for industrial use. <br><br>In 1978, the company expanded its participation in the ceramic industry, and Germer purchased controlling shares of another company in the city of Campo Largo, Paraná, <br>a city known as the "City of Ceramics". With purchase of stationary and continuous furnaces, which allowed fires to 1350 ° C, the company started its production of <br>decorated porcelain,changing the name to Germer Porcelanas Finas SA from 1988. <br><br>Today, with approximately 600 direct employees, the company management devotes great effort to expand and modernize the industrial park and the preservation <br>of nature, and to value its human resources with the maintenance of constant investments in the technical, health and leisure. Germer has also implemented a reforestation infrastructure in order to meet its needs for the generation of gas from the burning of firewood as a replacement for the gas generated from petroleum by-products.<br> <br>Currently, the Germer product line consists of approximately 500 items, is marketed throughout the national territory, in Mercosur, the United States and Europe, especially England, Germany, Switzerland and Denmark.