OVER 60 YEARS
AT YOUR
SERVICE

OUR MANIFEST

We are convinced that we are much more than suppliers for our clients: we’re strategic partners. We know that through our work, they can elevate theirs. It’s a double challenge: our success is theirs. That’s how we build long-term relationships.

That’s why quality and excellence lie in our foundations, are central to all of our processes and serve as a beacon in our horizon. Our experience and trajectory are at the service of each one of our undertakings. Our cutting-edge technology is our ally in always offering the best. Or even in improving it.

Our commitment is a bond and a guarantee, is giving everything our clients need in order to be reassured, and more. We work with passion. We are building the future of the industry from this very day.

Rheem. Your business, our commitment.

Rheem
Your business,
our
commitment

TRAJECTORY,
EXPERIENCE AND STRENGTH

We were born in 1959 with the idea of offering quality metal packaging to the Chilean national industry. Time passed, and we kept on seizing each opportunity in an ever growing market; we added experience and knowledge, but also vision. This is how in the eighties we incorporated a modern injection plant for plastic pails. Rheem Manufacturing has been a worldwide pioneer in working with that material in that product typology. This landmark started an expansion process towards the rest of the markets in the American continent, a process that never stopped.

We have been committed to our clients’ businesses for over 60 years, and over time we have learned to know them like no other, to understand their needs. And with that confidence, we look upon the future. Nothing gets us more excited!

1959

We started our activities under the name of Rheem Chilena in association with the transnational Rheem Manufacturing Company in order to attend lubricant packaging needs in metal drums belonging to ESSO Company.

1980

We installed a model plant for plastic injection, in order to fulfill the plastic packaging needs in the Chilean market. We started manufacturing plastic pails.

1985

We introduced 1 gallon and 5 gallons pails to the market, generating a revolutionary change in the way that paint and lubricants are packaged.

1992

We began exporting cylindrical drums. Our primary focus was the Argentine market, expanding later to other markets.

1993

During that period, we also incorporated to our production lines the most modern automation system of that era.

1996

Along with the key Chilean agro industrial producers we developed the conical metal drum. This meant an exponential growth in tomato paste and fruit pulp exports, that nowadays reach more than 50 countries worldwide.

1998

We obtained the ISO 9001:1994 certification, strengthening our commitment to provide quality for our clients.

2000

We introduced the one gallon conical plastic pail and the IML printing technology, and we began exporting plastic packaging. We enhanced our business alliances with our strategic partners Shell and Exxon Mobil.

2004

We inaugurated our new plastic packaging plant, consolidating our position as regional leaders in the pails manufacturing.

2006

We launched the removable lid drum with a 55 to 60 gallons capacity, neck in, that provided an answer to the agro industrial sector’s need to maximize drum charge per containers.

2008

We incorporated our QMS solution (Quick Manufacturing System), adding value to our customers through greater flexibility in their supply and important savings in logistics.

2016

Expansion of Rheem’s international market, from Oceania to North America.

2020

After a five years’ expansion period in industrial and technological infrastructure and in the development of human resources, along with the inauguration of a new hybrid line of conical and cylindrical metal drums, we established ourselves as the key player for industrial packaging solutions in the region.

INNOVATION

Things can be seen through different lenses: as they are, but also as they could be. We can use all of our resources, material as well as immaterial, to improve them.

That’s innovating. To look beyond. To be open to new challenges. To challenge “what it is” and turn it into what it could be: to make things reach their full potential. And to move forward.

At Rheem, innovation is at the heart of every process. It’s in our way of seeing the world. And we love it.

OUR QUALITY POLICE

OPERATIONAL
EXCELLENCE AND
QUALITY-ORIENTED
CULTURE

We hold an ISO 9001:2015 quality certification, and that’s the starting point to offer our best. At Rheem, we are committed to efficiency and excellence. We’re constantly looking for ways to improve our processes, and this also benefits our clients.

We are always there to offer our experience and to advise our clients about products, processes and solutions, in order to make the most of every advantage.

QUALITY POLICY

OUR
CERTIFICATIONS

CUTTING EDGE
INDUSTRIAL
INFRASTRUCTURE

We have a first-rate plant in Santiago de Chile, with a total surface of 47000 square feet. Our productive facilities occupy around 60% of that space, where more than 600 people work, a human team highly committed to the company’s goals.

We work to satisfy industrial packaging needs through two big business units: plastic pails and metal drums. Both units count on advanced technology.

We got your needs covered.

MARKET

LEADING
THE REGIONAL MARKET
OF INDUSTRIAL
PACKAGING

As part of our constant search for excellence, we focus on helping an ever increasing number of companies to reach their objectives. That’s our horizon. That’s why we lead the Latin American market and we have a presence throughout the world. Constantly venturing into new businesses motivates us and drives us forward.

OUR ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

Commitment is more than just an important word for us: it’s one of the cornerstones of our philosophy and has a presence in everything we do, including the protection of the environment.

How do we put our commitment into action?

We thoroughly follow all the environmental standards that regulate our industry.
We incorporate “clean” production technologies.
We educate our personnel in the subject.
We acknowledge the importance of delivering sustainable economic activities to future generations.
We develop preventive environmental management criteria, minimizing the possible negative impact from the very start. Thanks to that, we are able to reduce environmental pollution and reduce risks when handling waste.
We constantly collaborate with countries and regions, contributing to the vision and development of a circular economy.