Producer
CMPC (Empresas CMPC S.A.)
Chilean forestry and paper company (Santiago Stock Exchange: CMPC; Matte family controlled; ~US$6B revenue); world's 2nd-largest eucalyptus pulp producer with operations in Chile (Arauco region), Argentina, Brazil (Guaíba and Celulose Riograndense), and Uruguay. CMPC also manufactures tissue products (Petal and Noble brands in Latin America), printing paper, and packaging. The Matte family of Chile — one of Latin America's most powerful industrial families — controls CMPC alongside banking (Banco de Chile), real estate, and other assets. CMPC's Guaíba II expansion in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil added significant eucalyptus capacity in 2019.
1
Inputs supplied
1
Goods downstream
0
Facilities
0
Stories
What they make
1 input CMPC (Empresas CMPC S.A.) supplies
Click an input to see every good that depends on it, every country that produces it, and every other company in the supply chain.
Where it shows up
Goods downstream
Essential goods that depend on something CMPC (Empresas CMPC S.A.) makes, pick one to see the full supply chain.
What else they do
Business segments
The company's full revenue map, where this supply-chain role fits within their broader business.
Pulp (BEKP/NBHK Eucalyptus)
50%Tissue Products
25%Forest & Wood Products
15%Packaging & Printing Paper
10%
Intelligence
What's known
Sourced claims about this company's role in supply chains, chokepoints, concentration, incidents, dual-use connections.
Did you know2024
CMPC is simultaneously the world's 2nd-largest eucalyptus pulp producer (supplying tissue and paper manufacturers globally) and a retail tissue brand owner in Latin America (Petal, Noble brands sold in Chilean/Brazilian supermarkets). This vertical integration from forest → pulp → tissue → retail shelf is unusual in global pulp: most large pulp producers (Arauco, Suzano, APRIL) sell market pulp to tissue manufacturers who then create retail brands. CMPC competes with its own tissue pulp customers in some markets while supplying them in others. The Matte family's simultaneous control of Banco de Chile (where CMPC deposits operating cash and accesses credit) and CMPC itself creates an unusually tight family-controlled integration of industrial and financial capital that is rare in modern developed-market companies but common in Latin American family conglomerates.
Empresas CMPC S.A. ↗Origin2023
CMPC (Compañía Manufacturera de Papeles y Cartones) was founded in 1920 in Santiago — at the intersection of Chile's early industrial modernization and the Matte and Alessandri oligarchic families who would dominate Chilean economic life for the 20th century. The founding year (1920) places CMPC at the beginning of Chile's industrialization drive under the Arturo Alessandri Palma presidency. The Matte family (Eliodoro Matte Ossa's descendants) consolidated control of CMPC through the 20th century, building it alongside Banco de Chile and other family holdings into one of Latin America's most integrated family conglomerates. CMPC's expansion into Brazilian eucalyptus pulp (Guaíba expansion, completed 2019 at ~$3B cost) was the largest private industrial investment in Rio Grande do Sul's history, extending CMPC's supply chain beyond Chile into Brazil's vast eucalyptus plantation base.
Empresas CMPC S.A. ↗