The Plant obeys the procedures necessary for environmental preservation and a sustainable production.
 

The History of the Dracena Plant boasts many socio-environmental activities. Its preservationist ideas match the values of projects such as Etanol Verde (Green Alcohol) of the State Secretary for environment in the state of São Paulo, in which the power plant has been participating since 2007. This path of environmental and social concern led the Dracena sugar and alcohol plant to register in the Semear Program in 2010.

Amongst its environmental actions, the plant has invested in the cnstruction of a nursery, with the capacity to provide 150,000 seeds per year, which will be planted in areas under legal protection and riparian forest areas around rivers and streams that surround the property of the Dracena plant and its nieghbours. Besides this, the plant participates in the Semear Program, contributing to rehabilitation, reforestation and the creation of job opportunities for prisoners, who will cultivate the seedlings that the plant will use in its reforestation projects.

Apart from reforesation in the environmental realm, the Dracena Plant also promotes Environmental Education activities involving personal training and raising awareness of pupils in primary, secondary and higher edcation in the region.

The plant believes that success is the optimum productivity of the enterprise and that this lies is the development of its staff. Accroding to Fernando Martins, an engineer at Dracena, investing in the development of people means investing in the quality of service that the company offers, "For this reason we try to encompass the different and diverse sectors, giving an advantge to all staff".

Currently the plant has 982 employees, and for the 2010 crop, an estimated processing of 1 million tonnes of sugarcane, which will produce approxiamately 91,000 m³ of alcohol. In 2009 1,304,000 tonnes of sugarcane were processed for the production of 102,300 m³ of alcohol. "the Dracena Plant Industrial Park boasts the latest, highest technology equipment, for example the extraction process uses a totally automated diffuser. Besides this, the industrial complex is compact and covers the latest developments in the sugar-alcohol production industry.

Martins also points out that all the sugar cane industries of the Dracena Plant are planted in farms that receive special treatment, from modern soil protection techniques (contour curvers, terracing, rotivation, etc.), to the creation of riparian forest areas with native forest seedlings along the banks of rivers, streams and gulleys that pass through the plantations