Lacec Industrial Plant

What Lacec Industrial Plant does

Planta Industrial LACEC Cia Ltda, operating as Lacec Industrial Plant, is a privately held Ecuadorian industrial minerals manufacturer founded in 1982 and headquartered in Quinche, Ecuador. The company produces calcium carbonate for downstream use across four end-markets: construction, paper, plastics, and paints. Its position within these commodity-adjacent verticals places it as a regional input supplier to industrial converters and formulators rather than a direct-to-consumer brand.

The company's headcount is reported in the 101–250 employee band, consistent with a mid-sized industrial producer operating milling and processing infrastructure. Its full legal name (Planta Industrial LACEC Cia Ltda) and country of incorporation (Ecuador) suggest a domestic limited-liability corporate structure typical of family or closely-held industrial operators in the Andean region.

Available source data is materially incomplete: the company's official website (lacec.com.ec) returned only a loading/verification placeholder, and no product catalog, pricing, capacity, ownership, customer, distribution, or financial information was extractable. Consequently, the business model, revenue mechanics, customer segments, technology stack, and recent strategic posture cannot be substantiated beyond the basic commodity-producer profile described above. Any investment-grade assessment of LACEC requires direct primary-source disclosure from the company.

Name

Lacec Industrial Plant

Website

https://lacec.com.ec

Company type

Private

Founded year

1982

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Lacec Industrial Plant is an Ecuadorian privately held producer of calcium carbonate, founded in 1982 and based in Quinche, serving the construction, paper, plastics, and paints industries with industrial mineral inputs.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Minerals Manufacturing

NAICS

Other Basic Inorganic Chemical Manufacturing (325180)

SIC

Abrasive, Asbestos & Misc Nonmetallic Mineral Prods (3290), Industrial Inorganic Chemicals (2810)

akta.pro primary industry

Calcium Carbonate (GCC/PCC) (IMAEAFAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Limestone Quarrying (Industrial & Construction Grade) (IMAKAHAC)

Keywords

• Calcium carbonate production
• Industrial minerals manufacturing
• Construction materials supply
• Paper filler materials
• Paint additives manufacturing

Headquarters

HQ city

Quinche

HQ country

Ecuador

HQ region

Latin America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Planta Industrial LACEC Cia Ltda manufactures and supplies calcium carbonate (CaCO3) for use as an industrial input in the construction, paper, plastics, and paints sectors. The company operates an industrial plant in Quinche, Ecuador, producing mineral-based raw materials consumed by downstream manufacturers in these industries.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Calcium Carbonate (for construction)
• Calcium Carbonate (for paper)
• Calcium Carbonate (for plastics)
• Calcium Carbonate (for paints)

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Core technology

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App detail

Broad incumbents

• Lhoist Group: Belgian multinational lime and mineral products company serving industrial, environmental, and construction markets — comparable vertically integrated mineral processor and adjacent competitor for carbonate-related applications.
• Omya: Global leader in calcium carbonate (both GCC and PCC) and specialty fillers serving paper, plastics, paints, construction, and adhesives — directly overlapping with LACEC's product line and end-markets, but at massive multinational scale.
• Carmeuse: Global lime and limestone derivatives producer supplying construction, steel, environmental, and chemical industries — closely related mineral processing peer given limestone is the upstream feedstock for calcium carbonate production.
• Imerys: French multinational producing ground calcium carbonate, precipitated calcium carbonate, and a wide range of industrial minerals for paper, plastics, coatings, and construction — a direct upstream comparable to LACEC across essentially identical end-uses.
• Minerals Technologies Inc. U.S.-listed specialty minerals producer with leading PCC technology serving paper, and GCC operations in construction and industrial markets — a global benchmark for calcium carbonate producers serving the same downstream segments as LACEC.

Direct peers

• Nordkalk: European producer of limestone-based products including ground calcium carbonate for paper, paints, plastics, and construction — operates at comparable mid-industrial scale and serves the same end-markets as LACEC.
• Mississippi Lime Company: Producer of high-calcium lime and calcium carbonate products for industrial, construction, and environmental applications — comparable mid-scale mineral processor with similar commodity economics to LACEC.

Emerging players

• GCCP Resources: Smaller publicly-listed calcium carbonate producer focused on ground calcium carbonate for paper, plastics, and rubber — represents the smaller-scale, single-region calcium carbonate producer model that LACEC fits.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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