Alexander Bednarski

• The company’s headquarters are in Switzerland and Sayyou is officially renamed Zasso after its Japanese founder Satoru Narita (Zasso means “Plants in the wrong place” – or weeds, in Japanese).
• First internationalization of technology.
• Strengthening of its patent portfolio.
• Opening of Zasso GmbH, located in Aachen, Germany.

• Start of pilot projects in forestry companies.
• First operations in agriculture.
• Launch of urban solutions.
• Winner of the Fiesp Acceleration Award, among more than 1,000 participants, the largest contest of its kind in Brazil.

• • Partnership with Unicamp – Sao Paulo, Brazil.
• • First sale of equipment for market development – Embrapa in Brazil.
• • First sale of equipment for urban weeding – Santo Cristo, RS, Brazil.

After more than a decade of advanced R&D, Sergio Coutinho joins Sayyou as chief executive officer.

• • Development of a new modular applicator solution that could be adapted for different cultures.
• • Development of electronic controls required for field operations.
• • Partnership with Interp, incubator of the Manoel de Barros Foundation.
• • Victory in LatinAmerican MootCorp, the main business competition in Latin America.
• • Three awards at MootCorp in Austin, Tx. First Brazilian company to win awards in the largest business competition in the world.

Sayyou partners with the Pro-Café Foundation to develop a certifiable, organic, technical proof of technology.  This successful partnership enables the integration of our electrical weed killing equipment on certified organic coffee plantations in Brasil.

Our first prototypes are produced in 1994.  These field tests pave the way for future research and development work streams focused on reliability, effectiveness and efficiency of our solution.

Zasso Brasil is born as Sayyou in 1992. Founded by Satoru Narita, the company begins developing industrial, marketable electrical weeding equipment with the help of UNESP (São Paulo State University), and the sponsorship of the CESP (Companhia Energetica de Sao Paulo).