Cap

CAP S.A. engages in iron ore mining, steel production, and steel processing businesses in Chile and internationally. It operates in four segments: CAP Mining, CAP Steel, CAP Steel Processing, and CAP Infraestructura. The company extracts, processes, and sells minerals; and produces iron ore and pellets in the Pacific coast. It also produces and sells rods for ore grinding and reinforcing concrete, and other rod products for distributors and construction companies, processors and industrial companies, manufacturers of metal packaging, wire drawers, tube and profile factories, metal workshops, and mines. In addition, the company engages in cutting of coils; pressing of cold, hot, and galvanized rolled sheets; and manufacture and sale of seamed steel pipes, and steel pipes and profiles for dry construction, as well as the provision various solutions for the construction, residential, industrial, commercial, highway engineering, mining, and other sectors. Further, it sells galvanized steel sections for dry construction under the STEEL HOUSE brand; provides tubular steel products; produces and conducts desalinated water in Atacama region to provide water to the mining companies; and constructs power transmission lines. The company was formerly known as Compañía de Acero del Pacífico S.A. de Inversiones and changed its name to CAP S.A. in May 1991. CAP S.A. was founded in 1946 and is based in Las Condes, Chile.