With appreciation of the real, not only capital goods costs a lot less outside Brazil. This article shows that even typical Brazilian tropical fruits costs more here than in New York!
I'll just post some notes about Magnesita I found searching on the net so far:
I compared RHI numbers, the world market leader in the development, production and service of refractory materials, to Magnesita ones (RHI numbers were converted to BRL):
The company announced investments of R$ 300 million in two projects for vertical integration into raw materials, aiming to reach 90% of vertically.
It's trying to implement CCP model to price it's products. I didn't get that right.
MAGG is charging about 100 millions in depreciation per year, so CFO is much higher than published earnings.