Caleras San Juan Chile Ltda

What Caleras San Juan Chile Ltda does

Caleras San Juan Chile Ltda is a privately held Chilean-registered mining and industrial company that produces calcic lime, dolomitic lime, and natural carbonates for sale to metallic mining, non-metallic mining, industrial, construction, agricultural, and miscellaneous end-markets. Its operational base is a manufacturing plant in the Sarmiento department of San Juan Province, Argentina, co-located on a 1,000-hectare property with the company's own quarries; the plant has an annual production capacity of 180,000 tonnes. The company controls high-quality limestone reserves of 80+ million tonnes (supporting at least 70 years of operational life) and acquired dolomite reserves of 20+ million tonnes inferred, giving it full vertical integration from raw material extraction through finished lime products.

The business model is B2B industrial sales, conducted through direct commercial offices in Providencia (Santiago), Chile and San Juan, Argentina, with a logistics center under development in Lampa, Chile (10,000-tonne quicklime storage and transfer capacity, activity start date January 1, 2017) to support regional distribution across the Chile-Argentina mining corridor. The product portfolio is segmented into three core lines—Cales Cálcicas (calcic lime), Cales Dolomíticas (dolomitic lime), and Carbonatos Naturales (natural carbonates)—and pricing is quote-based rather than publicly disclosed. The Chilean Ltda entity itself appears lean with approximately 8 employees, functioning as the commercial and coordination vehicle for the larger Argentine production operation carried out through its wholly owned subsidiary Caleras San Juan Argentina. The company has no disclosed ownership, no funding rounds, no patents, no certifications, and no digital or AI capabilities documented in the available sources.

Name

Caleras San Juan Chile Ltda

Legal name

Caleras San Juan Chile Ltda

Website

https://calerassanjuan.cl

Company type

Private

Founded year

2004

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Caleras San Juan Chile Ltda is a privately held Chilean-registered mining company that produces calcic lime, dolomitic lime, and natural carbonates from an integrated quarry-to-plant operation in San Juan, Argentina, serving metallic and non-metallic mining, industrial, construction, and agricultural customers across Chile and Argentina.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Lime Production

NAICS

Crushed and Broken Limestone Mining and Quarrying (212312), Lime Manufacturing (32741), Lime Manufacturing (327410)

SIC

Mining & Quarrying Of Nonmetallic Minerals (No Fuels) (1400), Abrasive, Asbestos & Misc Nonmetallic Mineral Prods (3290)

akta.pro primary industry

Limestone Quarrying (Industrial & Construction Grade) (IMAKAHAC)

Keywords

• Industrial lime production
• Dolomitic lime supply
• Calcium carbonate distribution
• Limestone quarrying
• Quicklime manufacturing

Headquarters

HQ city

Providencia, Region Metropolitana

HQ country

Chile

HQ region

Latin America

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Lime and Derivative Products Sales: Production and sale of calcium lime, dolomitic lime, and natural carbonates to industrial customers in mining, construction, agriculture, and other sectors

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Caleras San Juan Chile Ltda is a mining company that extracts, produces, and sells calcic lime, dolomitic lime, and natural carbonates from its own quarries. The company operates a production plant in Sarmiento, San Juan, Argentina with an annual capacity of 180,000 tonnes, supplying industrial buyers in metallic mining, non-metallic mining, construction, and agriculture across Chile and Argentina.

Product overview

Caleras San Juan Chile Ltda is a mining company dedicated to the production of calcic lime, dolomitic lime, and natural carbonates. The company operates a manufacturing plant in the Sarmiento department of San Juan, Argentina with an annual production capacity of 180,000 tonnes, supported by its own limestone quarry (80+ million tonnes reserves) and an acquired dolomite quarry (20+ million tonnes). The company is implementing a logistics center in Lampa, Chile for storage and transfer of quicklime. The product portfolio consists of three core product lines—Calcic Lime, Dolomitic Lime, and Natural Carbonates—serving metallic mining, non-metallic mining, industrial, construction, agricultural, and other diverse sectors.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Calcic Lime (Cales Cálcicas)

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Regional players

• Nordkalk: Leading Northern European producer of limestone-based products including quicklime and hydrated lime. Comparable to Caleras San Juan in product mix and reserve-backed integrated operations, though operating in a different geographic market.
• Mississippi Lime Company: Large US-based producer of high-calcium lime and related products with extensive captive limestone reserves. Comparable to Caleras San Juan in vertically integrated limestone-to-lime operations and product portfolio, though focused primarily on the US market.
• SMA Mineral: European producer of quicklime, hydrated lime and limestone products serving steel, environmental and construction markets. Comparable to Caleras San Juan in vertically integrated limestone-to-lime operations and B2B industrial customer base, though operating primarily in Northern Europe.

Broad incumbents

• Carmeuse: Global lime and limestone producer with significant Americas operations. Comparable to Caleras San Juan in core lime product portfolio, integrated quarry-to-kiln operations, and exposure to mining and industrial end-markets.
• Graymont: One of the largest privately held lime producers in North America and the Asia-Pacific, with vertical integration into limestone reserves. Comparable to Caleras San Juan as a privately held, reserve-backed lime manufacturer serving industrial and mining markets.
• Lhoist: Belgian-headquartered global leader in lime and dolomitic lime products with operations across the Americas. Comparable as a large-scale, multi-region lime producer targeting similar end-markets including mining, steel and environmental applications.
• Imerys: French global specialty minerals group with significant carbonate and lime-adjacent product lines. Comparable to Caleras San Juan as a producer of industrial mineral products serving construction, agriculture and industrial end-markets, though much broader and more diversified.

Others

• Omya: Swiss global producer of industrial minerals including calcium carbonates and lime-based specialty products. Comparable to Caleras San Juan as a calcium carbonate producer serving industrial and agricultural markets, with adjacent (not directly competing) lime offerings.

Direct peers

• Calidra: One of the largest lime producers in Latin America, headquartered in Mexico with operations across the Americas. Directly comparable to Caleras San Juan as a regional, vertically integrated calcic and dolomitic lime manufacturer serving mining and industrial customers.
• Grupo Calero: Mexican lime producer with a multi-country Latin American footprint. Closely comparable to Caleras San Juan in product mix (calcic and dolomitic lime) and in serving cross-border mining and industrial demand.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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