VIVION S.A. is an international company based in Uruguay and subsidiary in Paraguay, dedicated to the development, manufacture and marketing of Conatel electrical materials, lighting, heating and air conditioning.
Its brand CONATEL is internationally recognized for its design and quality.
The origin of VIVION goes back to the moment CONATEL SA was set up in 1936, and when the manufacture of electrical materials began in this company, in 1945. As from 2009, former Electrical Materials Division of CONATEL S.A. has become a fully autonomous company which received the legacy of values, expertise and technology from its preceding company as well as its prestigious brand.
The history of VIVION S.A. goes back to the Electrical Materials Division of CONATEL S.A., a company with more than 80 years in the market and highly experienced in the development, manufacture and commercializacion of electrical materials.
Uruguay is a democratic Republic with a presidential system. The State is organized in three independent branches: Executive, Legislative and Judicial. The Executive Branch consists of a President and 14 Ministers. The Uruguayan Legal system is based on legal rules passed by the Parliament and promulgated by the President of the Republic.
Uruguay has a free export and import regime, without any importation quotas. It operates under a free market system without restrictions on foreing operations. There is tariff exemption among Mercosur memebers and tariffs vary between 0 and 20% for non-Mercosur memebers.