Micapel Slate

What Micapel Slate does

Micapel Slate is a Brazilian privately-held industrial company specializing in the prospecting, extraction, processing, and export of slate. Founded in 1988 and headquartered in Pompeu, Brazil — a municipality in Minas Gerais historically associated with slate production — the company operates as a vertically integrated natural-stone business, controlling activities from geological prospecting and quarrying through finished-product processing and international export. With a workforce of 101–250 employees, Micapel sits in the small-to-mid-cap segment of the Brazilian slate industry and serves international buyers of dimension stone used in construction, roofing, flooring, and architectural applications.

The company's stated operating scope spans the full slate value chain: identification of deposits, extraction from quarries, processing of slabs and finished products, and shipment to export markets. Its web presence is anchored at micapel.com.br, although at the time of data collection the site returned a verification/loading page, leaving product specifications, processing capacity, quarry footprint, certification status, and customer geography unverified. No information was available on pricing models, distribution intermediaries, certifications (e.g., CE marking, ISO quality standards, or environmental compliance), or end-market segmentation.

Micapel is privately held with no disclosed parent company, subsidiaries, funding rounds, or investor base in the input data. There are no recorded mergers, acquisitions, leadership changes, regulatory actions, or product launches. The lack of public-facing detail — combined with the company's 35+ year operating history — is consistent with a closely-held, operationally-focused industrial exporter rather than a venture- or growth-equity-backed enterprise. Strategic intelligence on the company is therefore materially limited; investors seeking diligence will need primary-source outreach to characterize revenue mix, customer concentration, and operational footprint.

Name

Micapel Slate

Website

https://micapel.com.br

Company type

Private

Founded year

1988

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Micapel Slate is a privately-held Brazilian company founded in 1988 and based in Pompeu that specializes in the prospecting, extraction, processing, and export of slate, serving international buyers of natural dimension stone for construction and architectural uses.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Natural Stone Mining & Processing

NAICS

Nonmetallic Mineral Mining and Quarrying (2123)

SIC

Mining & Quarrying Of Nonmetallic Minerals (No Fuels) (1400)

akta.pro primary industry

Slate Roofing (IMADAFAD)

Keywords

• Natural slate extraction
• Slate processing
• Slate export
• Stone quarrying
• Mineral prospecting

Headquarters

HQ city

Pompeu

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure

Core offering

Micapel Slate specializes in the prospecting, extraction, processing, and export of natural slate stone. The company sources slate from its own quarries in Brazil and delivers finished slate products to buyers, serving construction, building, and stone-distribution markets.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Natural Slate — Extracted & Processed for Export Prospected, extracted, and processed natural slate stone from Micapel Slate's quarries in Pompeu, Brazil, sold to construction, building-materials, and stone-distribution buyers for use in roofing, flooring, cladding, and landscaping applications.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Direct peers

• Glendyne: Canadian natural slate producer with quarrying, processing, and export operations. Direct peer to Micapel as a non-European slate miner exporting premium roofing and architectural slate globally.
• New England Slate: US producer and distributor of Vermont and regional slate for roofing and architectural applications. Comparable integrated supply from quarry to finished slate product for construction end markets.
• Cupa Pizarras: World's largest natural slate producer with integrated extraction, processing, and global distribution. Comparable to Micapel as a fully integrated slate miner-exporter serving construction end markets worldwide.
• Rathscheck Schiefer: German slate producer with over 200 years of operations, mining and exporting premium roofing slate. Direct comparable to Micapel in integrated slate extraction and international distribution.
• La Brañosa (Grupo Cupa): Spanish natural slate quarry and processor, part of the Cupa group, exporting roofing slate globally. Directly comparable quarry-to-export operating model targeting the same international customer base.
• Vermont Slate Company: US-based slate producer extracting and fabricating colored roofing and architectural slate. Comparable vertically integrated operations serving the North American premium slate market.
• Cedral (formerly Cedral Slate / Brathay): Operates UK slate quarries and distributes roofing slate internationally. Direct competitor to Micapel in the export roofing slate market with overlapping customer base in Europe and the Americas.

Broad incumbents

• Welsh Slate (Breedon Group): Heritage Welsh slate producer now part of Breedon Group, producing roofing slate and aggregate products. Comparable slate mining and processing activity, though the parent operates across a broader construction materials portfolio.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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