In an industry historically dominated by men such as mining and metallurgy, advancing diversity inclusion is both a goal and a necessary condition to face future challenges. At ME Elecmetal, this conviction is lived concretely, promoting more spaces for awareness, collaboration, and female leadership that manifest as part of a deeper transformation:diversity of talents in a multicultural company
During 2025 and within the framework of Women’s Month 2026, the Company has developed various initiatives that reflect this path, understanding that the inclusion of more diverse talent responds to a social reality and a strategic need for the sustainable development of ME Elecmetal, fulfilling the ambitious goals set for 2030: sustainable growth.
Connecting Diversity with Innovation and Sustainability
During the month of March and through close and deep conversations, topics such as effective communication, collaborative work between men and women, and discipline as a growth driver were addressed. The spaces were:
- First chapter of “Women Driving the Future”: A space organized by the People Management Department and the ME Elecmetal Women’s Group, where topics related to women and the work environment were discussed, promoting open reflection on the path and role of women in an organization and industry as challenging as ours.
- Participation in the global Women Economic Forum (WEF) – New York 2026: Constanza Echeverría, Global Sustainability Director, was part of the WEF Chile delegation, alongside other representatives from important companies across various productive sectors, bringing ME Elecmetal to the international annual meeting on the panel “Women Leading Sustainable Mining” and at the launch of the Global Women Bank platform of the G100 instance of the global WEF.
Her intervention highlighted the importance of access and the incorporation of more women in the mining value chain as a key factor to drive collaboration, innovation, and sustainable transformation of the industry.
This initiative adds to the participation in the Woman Open Innovation (WOI) 2025, also of the WEF, this time the Chile chapter, a space that valued the role of women in innovation processes and sustainable development of heavy industries, traditionally male-dominated and highly challenging in terms of diverse talent inclusion. In this instance, Constanza Echeverría participated with her vision of a global operation advancing towards full circularity, and Jacqueline González, head of innovation, participated in the working group “Women in Mining.”
What results and impacts were achieved in these instances?
Women Driving the Future: In this instance, topics such as effective communication, collaborative work between men and women, and discipline as a growth driver were addressed, along with motherhood and work-life balance. The meeting opened spaces for reflection, reaffirming that advancing inclusion means listening, sharing, and building collectively.
Women Economic Forum: Annual meeting held in New York, where ME Elecmetal and the various women who are part of its operations in different regions of the world were represented in the WEF Chile Delegation and in high-level dialogues. Their participation had a clear purpose: to position the transformative capacity of the mining value chain and ME Elecmetal as a strategic supplier when incorporating more women. In this context, it reinforced the idea that the inclusion of diverse talent is not only an ethical and compliance imperative but a key enabler for collaboration, innovation, and sustainability across the entire industry.
“The inclusion of women in high-challenge productive environments involves understanding multiple realities worldwide, which made me reaffirm something essential: access remains the great challenge: Access to work, decision-making, early development in STEM fields, and enabling deep collaboration between men and women as an absolutely strategic tool.”
