Industrialized

Chile

Industrialization in Chile was spearheaded by Charles Saint Lambert who by 1840 had established modern reverberatory furnaces for copper smelting in Fundición Lambert, La Serena. Through his contacts in he and his son continuously imported the latest smelting technologies from Swansea. Considering the enterprizes of Saint Lambert an outlier the onset of Chilean industrialization has often been dated to the end of the 19th century. The 1870s saw of industries like sugar refineries, confectioneries and shoe and textile factories emerge. Since the 1980s some scholars have argued that Chile was en route to becoming a full-fledged industrialized nation before 1914, yet economist Ducoing claims no industrialization took place, but rather a modernization process.