Global player of tire, construction reinforcement & composites technologies Kordsa was honoured as company of the year in Brazil by prestigious magazine Você S/A. After surveying all employees, Você S/A named Kordsa as ‘best company to work for’, ‘best company in textile to work for’ and ‘best small company with employees lower than 500 to work for’ in Brazil.

Also, Kordsa Brazil got a job happiness index of 87.5 per cent among the 150 best companies to work for.

Kordsa’s raised engagement rate since 2011 to achieving the best job happiness rate through people management practices, demonstrates the company’s employee centred leadership policies focusing on inspiring, reinforcing, caring and developing them to overcome challenges together. Every year, Kordsa’s CEO and senior managers regularly visit their facilities around the world to meet with their employees and exchange ideas.

Recently, Kordsa has received many prestigious awards in Brazil. It had been previously listed among the best employers in Bahia, Brazil four times in a row and was named the 18th best company by the Great Place to Work Institute (GPTW). Additionally the company was deemed worthy of the ‘Best Practices in Internship Programs’ award for two consecutive years by Instituto Euvaldo Lodi, and has also got a special recognition called ‘revelation of the year’ by Você S/A on 2017 by getting the highest score among first time attendees.

As the worldwide leader of the tire reinforcement technologies market, Kordsa carries out production through a vast area from US to Asia Pacific and supplies its reinforcement technologies to the whole world. With its business processes all based on R&D and innovation, Kordsa has 786 patent applications world-wide.