Grupo Jacto

What Grupo Jacto does

Grupo Jacto is a privately held Brazilian industrial group founded in 1948 and headquartered in Pompéia, Brazil, operating across multiple divisions in agricultural equipment, precision agriculture, cleaning equipment, and plastics. The company manufactures agricultural sprayers and harvesters, offers the OTMIS precision agriculture system, produces cleaning machines, and runs a plastics operation through its Unipac subsidiary. With 1,001-5,000 employees, Groupo Jacto serves the Brazilian agricultural sector with heavy equipment and adjacent industrial products, and additionally operates the cleaning machines and plastics segments.

The business model appears to be traditional industrial manufacturing and sales: physical equipment is sold through equipment dealer/agronomic retail channels, and the OTMIS precision systems line represents a higher-margin, technology-leveraged extension of the core sprayer/harvester franchise. Plastics via Unipac and cleaning machines appear to be adjacent industrial verticals that diversify the revenue base beyond pure ag equipment cycles. The group is private, with no public ticker, no disclosed funding rounds, and no investor or M&A history documented in the source data, suggesting long-standing family or closely-held ownership typical of established Brazilian industrial conglomerates.

Source data is thin on specifics: no public pricing, no customer logos, no segment-level revenue mix, no management team, no partnerships, no awards, and no product launch cadence are disclosed. The description above is grounded strictly in the firmographic record; any further claims about technology stack, go-to-market, customer segments, or revenue mechanics would be unsupported and are not asserted.

Name

Grupo Jacto

Legal name

Grupo Jacto

Website

https://grupojacto.com.br

Company type

Private

Founded year

1948

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Short description

Grupo Jacto is a privately held Brazilian industrial group, founded in 1948 and headquartered in Pompéia, that manufactures agricultural sprayers and harvesters, OTMIS precision agriculture systems, cleaning machines, and plastics via Unipac, serving Brazilian farmers and industrial buyers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Agricultural Machinery

NAICS

Farm Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing (333111), Agricultural Implement Manufacturing (33311)

SIC

Farm Machinery & Equipment (3523)

akta.pro primary industry

Crop Protection & Application Equipment (Sprayers/Spreaders) (IMAHACAC)

akta.pro secondary industry

Residue & Straw Management (Choppers, Spreaders, Windrowers) (AFAAAEAF)

Keywords

• Agricultural sprayers
• Agricultural harvesters
• Precision agriculture systems
• Industrial cleaning machines
• Industrial plastics manufacturing

Headquarters

HQ city

Pompéia

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Core offering

Grupo Jacto manufactures and supplies agricultural equipment, including agricultural sprayers and harvesters, complemented by the OTMIS precision agriculture system. The company also produces industrial cleaning machines and manufactures plastics through its Unipac division, serving agribusiness operators and industrial buyers primarily in Brazil.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Agricultural sprayers Manufactured agricultural spraying equipment for crop protection and input application, targeted at commercial agribusiness operators and farming enterprises.
• Agricultural harvesters Manufactured harvesting machinery for crop collection, targeted at commercial agribusiness operators and farming enterprises.
• OTMIS precision agriculture system Precision agriculture system offered as a complement to Grupo Jacto's agricultural equipment, designed to support precision input application and farming operations.
• Cleaning machines Manufactured industrial cleaning machines for commercial and industrial buyers.
• Industrial plastics (Unipac) Manufactured plastic components/products produced through Grupo Jacto's Unipac division, supplying plastics for industrial and agricultural applications.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights1 record

Direct peers

• Hardi International: Specialist crop-spraying equipment manufacturer with a global footprint. Direct peer to Grupo Jacto in the sprayer category, with comparable product technology, including electronics and rate-control systems.
• Kuhn Group: Specialist manufacturer of agricultural machinery including sprayers, tillage, hay and forage, and planting equipment. Closely comparable to Grupo Jacto's crop-protection and harvesting portfolio, with a European base but global distribution.
• Lemken: European manufacturer of agricultural implements including sprayers, tillage equipment, and seeders. Competes with Grupo Jacto in crop-protection application and tillage categories, particularly in premium export markets.
• Stara: Brazilian agricultural machinery manufacturer producing sprayers, planters, spreaders, and precision-agriculture systems. Direct domestic competitor to Grupo Jacto with overlapping product range and similar end customer base in Brazilian row-crop agriculture.

Broad incumbents

• Mahindra & Mahindra (Farm Equipment): One of the world's largest tractor and farm equipment manufacturers by volume. While primarily focused on tractors, its product range and emerging-market footprint overlap with Grupo Jacto's broader machinery portfolio.
• Deere & Company: Global leader in agricultural equipment with a deep precision-agriculture stack (John Deere Operations Center, See & Spray). Comparable to Grupo Jacto across tractors, sprayers, and harvesters, but materially larger, with broader geographic reach and a fully integrated software platform.
• AGCO Corporation: Multi-brand agricultural equipment manufacturer (Massey Ferguson, Fendt, Valtra, PTx Trimble) competing directly with Grupo Jacto in sprayers, tractors, and harvesting equipment, and increasingly in precision agriculture.
• CNH Industrial: Owner of Case IH and New Holland, CNH produces sprayers, tractors, and harvesters that overlap with Grupo Jacto's core product lines and competes with the company across Latin American markets.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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