- CEO
- Marcelo da Silva Lessa
- Full Time Employees
- 781
- Sector
- Process industries
- Industry
- Chemicals: agricultural
- Address
- San Fernando Chile
- IPO Date
- May 10, 2004
- Business
- Compañía Agropecuaria Copeval S.A. is a Chile-based commercial distributor and agricultural services provider that delivers integrated solutions to farmers, livestock producers, and agro-industrial enterprises. Founded in 1956 and headquartered in San Fernando, Chile, the company operates an extensive nationwide distribution network spanning from the Atacama Region to the Los Lagos Region, serving as a comprehensive supply and technical partner across the Chilean agricultural sector.
The company operates through diversified business segments, offering products and services structured into distinct lines: crop protection and nutrition, including phytosanitary chemicals, herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, biostimulants, bulk and soluble fertilizers, soil amendments, and certified seeds; agricultural machinery and mechanization, encompassing tractors, harvesters, crop sprayers, precision farming equipment, original replacement parts, and after-sales technical maintenance; technified irrigation systems, including drip and micro-sprinkler networks, industrial water pumps, filtration systems, automated fertigation equipment, hydraulic engineering, and turnkey installation; animal nutrition and veterinary healthcare, providing formulated feed concentrates, forage supplements, livestock pharmaceuticals, vaccines, and animal hygiene products; agro-industrial and grain management operations, offering industrial grain drying, cleaning, storage silos, and cereal processing; business advisory and financial services, providing seasonal working capital financing, agronomic field consultancy, workforce training programs, and regional government development project management; and general rural supplies, including agricultural hardware, fencing materials, personal protective equipment, lubricants, and bulk fuels. The company executes these activities directly and through operating subsidiaries such as Copeval Servicios S.A., Copeval Agroindustrias S.A., and Copeval Capacitación S.A.
In recent developments, Compañía Agropecuaria Copeval S.A. has advanced its digital transformation and operational modernizations by deploying an expanded nationwide agricultural e-commerce platform offering thousands of products with 24/7 ordering and integrated digital credit management. The company also secured strategic sustainability-linked financing with IDB Invest (BID Invest) to support working capital needs, enhance climate-smart agricultural practices, and integrate environmental and social management systems across its supply chain. Additionally, Copeval has reinforced its commercial distribution partnerships, including expanded distribution agreements with specialty plant nutrition manufacturers such as COMPO EXPERT, while continuing to serve as an official Intermediary Operator Agent (AOI) for CORFO to administer regional enterprise investment and modernization programs.