The Compañía Electro-Siderúrgica e Industrial de Valdivia also known by its acronyms ESVAL is an iron and steel industry located at

Valdivia Valdivia (; Mapuche: Ainil) is a city and commune in southern Chile, administered by the Municipality of Valdivia. The city is named after its founder, Pedro de Valdivia, and is located at the confluence of the Calle-Calle, Valdivia, and ...

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes, Andes Mountains and the Paci ...

. The enterprise is considered the inheritor of

Altos Hornos y Acerías de Corral The Altos Hornos y Acerías de Corral was a major iron and steel industry located at the port of Corral, Chile, Corral in Chile. The industry operated using charcoal. The remains of the industry were bought up in 1926 by Valdivian entrepreneurs w ...

whose infrastructure it bought in 1926 when it was created by entrepreneurs from

. Villalobos, Sergio; Silva, Osvaldo; Silva, Fernando; Estelle, Patricio (1974). ''Historia De Chile'' (14th ed.). Editorial Universitaria. . pp. 780-781.

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