- CEO
- Patricio Merello Hitschfeld
- Sector
- Non-energy minerals
- Industry
- Steel
- Address
- Maipu Chile
- IPO Date
- Jan 28, 1993
- Business
- Cintac S.A. is a Chile-based industrial manufacturing company primarily engaged in the processing, transformation, and commercialization of steel products and advanced industrialized construction systems. Founded in 1956 and headquartered in Maipú, Santiago, Chile, the company operates as a core subsidiary of the Chilean mining and steel conglomerate CAP S.A. Cintac offers comprehensive building and infrastructure solutions organized across four main operating divisions: Construction and Industry, Infrastructure and Road Safety, Modular Construction, and Renewable Energy. Its diversified portfolio of products and services includes structural steel tubes, hollow sections, round pipes, and rectangular profiles; cold-formed open steel profiles, purlins, structural angles, and the Metalcon light-gauge steel framing system for residential, commercial, and industrial construction; metal roofing, architectural wall cladding, corrugated and trapezoidal panels, and insulated sandwich panels featuring polyurethane, polyisocyanurate, and expanded polystyrene cores marketed under brands such as Instapanel and Calaminon; highway guardrails, crash cushions, metallic road containment barriers, corrugated steel culverts, drainage conduits, and acoustic noise barriers for civil transport infrastructure; custom ground-mount racking, tracker steel components, and rooftop mounting structures for utility-scale and distributed solar photovoltaic installations through Cintac Solar; industrial racking, heavy-duty shelving, cantilever storage systems, and automated warehouse structures; and prefabricated modular housing, mining camp facilities, temporary office complexes, and structural engineering services provided through its subsidiary Promet Servicios SpA. The company serves construction contractors, industrial developers, civil infrastructure concessionaires, mining corporations, agricultural operations, and energy developers across Latin America, maintaining primary manufacturing facilities and distribution networks in Chile and Peru, the latter operating via subsidiaries Tubos y Perfiles Metálicos S.A. (Tupemesa) and Fabricaciones Metálicas S.A. (Calaminon). In recent operational and strategic developments, Cintac has executed a corporate restructuring program designed to optimize its production footprint, streamline commercial integration between its Chilean and Peruvian operations, and focus resources on higher-margin engineered systems and sustainable building solutions. The company has also expanded its modular construction backlog through major industrial and mining project awards via Promet, broadened the commercial rollout of certified photovoltaic racking systems across Andean clean energy corridors, adjusted product portfolios to enhance supply chain resilience against steel raw-material fluctuations, and implemented balance sheet optimization initiatives to improve financial flexibility and operational efficiency across its regional platform.