- 1922 -  Florencio B. Fontenele starts at carnauba wax exports 
- 1934- New warehouse
for crude carnauba
wax exports 
- 1950- Mr Florencio passed
away, new president Mr Humberto Fontenele 
- 1972 - 
New plant at
Piripiri, FONCEPI 
- 1980- Technology for
filter press 
- 1985- Foncepi double the
production capacity 
- 1994- Mr
Roberto
Fontenele
new
president 
- 1997- ISO 9001 was
implemented 
- 1998- New carnauba warehouses at
country side Picus Piaui 
- 2003 -  New Foncepi Eusebio
Plant for type 1 
- 2006- New spray dry tower
for canauba wax in
powder 
- 2007 - 
Organic
Certificate 
- 2007 - 
Kosher Halal
certificate 
- 2007 - 
ISO 22000
haccp and
ISO 9001 
- 2009 - 
Investment at
production
capacity 
- 2010 - 
Pastillation
belt unit
at Eusebio
plant 
- 2011- Pastillation
belt unit
at Piauí plant 
- 2013- Mr Roberto Fontenele
industrial award
from Piauí industrial
Federation, FIEPI 
- 2014 - 
New laboratory with new
training room and modern installations, investments at R&D Projects in co-operation with our customers 
- 2016 - 
Sustainable Carnauba
wax Seal 
- 2017 - 
FSSC 22000 recognized by GSFI internationally as a food safety standards 
- 2018 - 
Fairtrade Certified
Fair for Life 
- 2018- The futuro 
of Carnauba Project 
- 2019 - 
UEBT
Membership 
- 2019- IRC
Membership  
- 2020- Vegan
 
- 2020- Bioethical