New Santiago Factory:

Supporting
South America’s
Copper and Lithium Expansion

As the hunt for copper and lithium heats up across the globe we’re building local capability and support for customers in South America. CPS’s new roller factory in Santiago will bring agile production and faster responsiveness to roller supply reducing risk and downtime for customers across Latin America. Sign up below for updates as this milestone approaches.

Proven quality and technology

Our Chile based factory will produce the same premium rollers our customers trust from Australia with the same engineering, safety, and reliability standards, now made in country. You’ll get the same rollers which redefined materials bulk handling over a decade ago by lasting longer, failing less and working together with belts to reduce power draw, noise, material build up and improving safety.

Australian Quality Standards and Checks

The long life and superior performance of CPS Rollers is due to many factors including decades spent evolving the precise mechanical and chemical engineering, continual innovation and on-going testing… as well as a regime of over 50 rigorous quality checks performed on the rollers during manufacture and on the finished product. Our Santiago factory adheres to our globally aligned, quality-focused manufacturing model supported by common processes, controls, verification systems and principles.

Our International Quality Framework was developed by our Australian factory to maintain its ISO 9001 certification. These same strict testing standards are adhered to whether rollers are being made in Australia or Chile and both factories use the exact same equipment, tooling, machines and robot programming.

Our expert team from Australia managed the factory build and manage the systems and procedures used in Santiago. Latin American team members also spend time in Australia being trained on this and all aspects of our processes and new techniques as they become available.

Same raw materials and same machinery as Australia

CPS’s custom High-Density Polyethylene (HDPE) and Polyurethane (PU) are the result of over a decade of chemical engineering, innovation and real-world testing. Our ground breaking formulations are a large part of why CPS rollers outperform competitor conveyor rollers. Those exact same raw materials, and the exact same machines used to produce rollers in Australia are the foundation of roller production in Santiago.

Strategic Partnership
with SKF

The Santiago facility will manufacture CPS rollers using the same proven designs and engineering standards developed in Australia. Through collaborative inventory planning and improved responsiveness to market demand, the partnership with SKF will help ensure these standards are consistently maintained for customers throughout the region.
“Our ambition is to establish CPS Chile as a centre of manufacturing excellence for South America,” said Jimmy Landgren, CPS Latin America General Manager.

“The successful development of this facility has been driven by close collaboration between our Australian and Chilean teams, combining decades of global manufacturing experience with local knowledge and expertise. This partnership with SKF provides an important foundation as we continue building a reliable, sustainable manufacturing capability for the region.”

Speed and responsiveness

Instead of waiting months for shipping, customers will get locally manufactured rollers in a fraction of the time. That’s a major step forward for uptime and maintenance planning. This investment supports the mining industry across South America with:

Local manufacturing capability
Local support and servicing
Faster supply
Unmatched local roller capacity

Sustainability focus

Low carbon manufacturing is at the heart of our vision. Our new factory has a clear road-map towards a sustainable future, with solar power, waste reduction, and goals aligned to Michelin’s 2030 strategy.

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CPS acknowledges the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters, airways and communities.

We pay respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures; and to Elders past and present.

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