Investor Relations
Innovation and sustainability are two important pillars to VIX and the entire Group Águia Branca. VIX, for instance, has implemented a series of policies and initiatives aiming at the observance of the most modern and strict standards of quality, environment, health, safety, and social action, to all our relationship audiences, including collaborators, customers, suppliers, shareholders, and society.
Innovation sets us apart. We are nonconformists and firmly believe that continuous evolution is always possible. In line with this principle, we launched VIX Labs in January 2018, the first innovation laboratory of the Águia Branca Group, designed to create favorable conditions for innovation to flourish. By fostering a creative and collaborative environment, VIX Labs serves as a space for developing innovative solutions and addressing real challenges in the logistics market.
The idea for the Labs emerged after the company’s shareholders participated in an immersion in Silicon Valley. From that experience, the opportunity was identified to establish an innovation laboratory dedicated to VIXPar. Thus, VIX Labs was born with the mission of fostering an innovation-driven culture, testing new ideas, and developing solutions that generate value for the business.
In addition to providing spaces for training, knowledge management, and the application of agile methodologies, the laboratory supports the development and delivery of projects that matter to VIXPar and its clients, always in close collaboration with internal teams. Its purpose is to stimulate creativity, bring the entrepreneurial mindset to employees, and serve as a hub connecting people, ideas, and solutions.
More than just a physical space, VIX Labs is a team that connects people, supports projects, and transforms good ideas into reality. Based on five pillars—culture, clients, prototyping, pipeline, and ecosystem—the Lab aims to foster a culture of organic innovation and enable consistent strategic initiatives in innovation and technology, turning them into tangible results that enhance VIXPar’s competitiveness and growth.
Today, we strengthen this culture of innovation through the Innovation Circuit, our ideas program, which has surpassed itself each year in the number of submissions by employees, including both new and implemented ideas. Additionally, we run Papo da Base, a video series dedicated to recognizing ideas implemented by employees and identifying synergies across departments, bringing operations closer to innovation.
We also seek to consolidate our relationships with clients through active and attentive listening to their current needs. This approach not only strengthens the services and solutions we already provide but also helps us identify pathways for creating new business opportunities, expanding our portfolio, and building increasingly solid and long-lasting partnerships.
VIXPar is committed to the continuous improvement of its Management System, environmental performance, and health and safety management, always promoting people’s well-being and development, competitiveness and sustainability of services, operational and road safety, environmental protection, and the generation of sustainable value.
This commitment is recognized through international certifications:
ISO 9001 – Quality Management: ensures efficient processes, customer focus, and continuous improvement.
ISO 14001 – Environmental Management: guarantees sustainable practices, impact prevention, and responsible use of natural resources.
ISO 45001 – Occupational Health and Safety: reinforces the promotion of safe working environments and care for people.
These certifications strengthen corporate governance and reinforce the trust of our investors, clients, and partners.
Respect for the environment is demonstrated through the implementation of campaigns and programs focused on sustainability. These initiatives involve employees, service providers, and the communities in which the company operates, encouraging the responsible use of natural resources and the preservation of nature.
The company adopts postures of emission control, with a rigid maintenance, with a detailed control of the CO2 levels of our fleet. It includes the monitoring of postures of drivers and the correct adjustment of the equipment during the use, influencing sudden braking and throttle. Defensive driving techniques are also applied, including the control of tire pressure in the weekly Itr’s, regular and preventive maintenance, in addition to the observance of the scale legislation and the technical limit of vehicles.
The participation of the company from the creation of Program Qualiar, promoted by Fetransportes, with a quarterly evaluation of the emission levels, with the obtainment of maximum grading in all evaluations.
At VIX Logística, in addition to the control and monitoring of the legal parameters, initiatives are adopted seeking the reduction of environmental damages related to the operations of the company, such as effluent treatment stations and the reuse of rain water to wash the fleet.
Campaigns are promoted throughout the year for the conscious use of water, involving the collaborators of all bases of the company, stimulating the sustainable use of natural resources.
Our plants are adapted to collect rainwater and water generated by AC units, which are stored and used to wash the vehicles.
For 30 years we have implemented a water reuse system to wash the vehicles. The water used during the washing process of vehicles is collected and passes in a water and oil system, then passing through filters for the removal of impurities and odor, returning to be used in new washing operations. The savings are of approximately 31 million liters/year.
VIX Logística adopts a set of programs aiming the application of the 5 environmental R’s – Reduce, Reuse, Rethink, Recover, and Recycle – in the waste generated by the organization.
With the Selective Collection program, all collaborators may contribute with the correct separation of the materials destined to recycling or reuse.
The Águia Branca Environmental Reserve is a Private Reserve of the Natural Heritage – “RPPN”. It is a conservation unit maintained by the private sector with the purpose of preserving the biological diversity of a region.
The Águia Branca Environmental Reserve was created in 2017 by Group Águia Branca to contribute with the sustainable development of the Mountain Region of the State of Espírito Santo, protecting the largest forest remains of Rain Forest.
Located in the city of Vargem Alta, the Reserve has 2,225.64 hectares of area and a rich biodiversity, with the cataloging of several fauna and flora species, some of them rare and threatened with extinction.
The space is prepared, against prior schedule, to receive visitors with actions on environmental education, leisure options, and trails.
Vix Logística also stimulates the continuous improvement of the processes and activities, based on the use of the tools of the Quality and Award Maintenance of Ideas. The opportunities of improvement are evaluated systematically or on a systemic basis and the best opportunities are recognized in Vix Logística Quality Award.
As a form of stimulating the use of quality tools, diffusing the methodology of management of processes as an instrument of identification of opportunities of improvement, either by corrective action, preventive action, improvements, or innovation, allowing managers to obtain consistent results with the organizational goals.
The Award Maintenance of Ideas has as its objective to evaluate and award the best initiatives related to gain of yield, cost reduction, innovation and safety of the maintenance area, thus allowing the acknowledgment of managers and collaborators.
Partnership with EDP, allowing the start of the tests with the full electric bus in the freight operations of Vix Logística as of 2020
Use of the first full electric vehicles in the fleet outsourcing and ridesharing- V1 agreement
Feasibility studies on the use of electric Truck Tractors for the traction of convoys up to 120 tons in port areas
Cargo handling machines with hydraulic cylinders and a power recovery system with a reduction of Diesel consumption up to 30%.
To VIX Logística, the sustainable development of the communities where the company is placed inspires the conduction of programs aiming at involving all audiences towards solidary and educative attitudes.
In this regard, the sponsoring of cultural projects and campaigns with the communities are examples of initiatives related to sustainability. The company also promotes actions and programs of volunteerism that count on the participation of collaborators socially engaged.
One of these programs is AmiGab, promoted by Group Águia Branca, in which collaborators contribute with the increase of the self-esteem of children and teenagers of social institutions near 13 operation units of the Group.