As a leading manufacturer of conveyor belts for the mining industry, ContiTech Conveyor Belt Group says it offers “flexible, qualified, and customer-oriented service worldwide.” On August 1, 2014, this business unit of ContiTech opened a sales office in Lima, Peru, where the goal is to build up a local service team that supervises projects on location.

“Peru’s mining sector is the fastest growing mining sector in South America. Many investments are being planned for the coming years. Furthermore, Peru has a large number of mineral resources that have not yet been tapped into,” said Silvia Braatz, Director of Peru Operations, adding: “Our target groups are therefore primarily mining companies and the mining industry.” The team will focus on the high-quality textile and steel cord conveyor belts made by ContiTech.

The sales office will mainly be operated by the ContiTech production location in Santiago, Chile. “With the company strategy ‘ContiTech Conveyor Belts – First Choice,’ we manufacture according to German quality standards and our products profit worldwide from the know-how of our engineers. Furthermore, we are able to guarantee short transport routes this way,” explained Braatz. In addition to the sale of textile and steel cord conveyor belts, like ContiTech STAHLCORD for example, the development of a service team is also being planned. Amongst other things, the employees will handle assembly work as well as repairs directly at the mine operators in Peru.