CEO de Metaproject, Manuel Viera
The CEO of Metaproject Group and the president of the Chilean Mining Chamber, Manuel Viera Flores, participated on October 7 and 8 in INTECMIN 2025, meeting that took place in the Centro Deportivo y Recreacional Codelco, in Chuquicamata, Calama, city consider like cradle of mining in Chile.
INTECMIN brought together the leading figures of the mining industry with the aim of promoting development, innovation, and technology adoption, while also strengthening ties with the local community.
The meeting convocate more than 40 speakers, more than 100 managers and supervisors, and also, representatives from the academic and business sectors, creating a favorable environment to share experiences and knowledge, and to establish new strategic partnerships.
During the event, our CEO, Manuel Viera, shared his insights on the current challenges and prospects of mining at both the global and national levels. One of the key points of his presentation was the the need to industrialize natural resources:
“Chile needs to industrialize its natural resources. That is the only way. Right now, we are selling raw materials and creating jobs for the people or the countries that buy these raw materials from us.”
In this regard, he stated, “Chile, first of all, has no added value in what it is selling. So, we are not just in the Third World, we are in the Fourth World, if we continue like this.”
Another of the key toppics addressed by Manuel Viera at INTECMIN was the rol of China and the impact of the comercial war with the United States.
About that, he pointed out that the United States “has realized that it is impossible to compete with China’s innovation and technological development,” and therefore, “that trade war is already lost for the U.S.”
Finally, he emphasized: 'We, and the mining industry in general, are looking China with good eyes, in the sense that is competing with innovation and technological development far superior to that of the Western world.'"
In that sense, we, as Metaproject Group, promote a more innovative, competitive mining industry that is aligned with the technological challenges of both the global and national landscape.
