Eurofin Consulting S.r.l. performs as Intermediate Body of the Chilean Economic Development Agency Corporación de Fomento para la Producciòn – CORFO – as its Italian Branch.
As a result, our Company performs a double purpose on a private as well as institutional level.
Eurofin Consulting, in strategic collaboration with CORFO and institutionally supported by Italian Organizations and Local, Provincial and Regional Authorities, providing, fostering and supporting either Italian and Chilean investments in order to promote partnership practices for commercial and manufacturing entrepreneurship. At the same time, on a private level, we support entrepreneurs, during the manufacturing process to implement new business projects in the MERCONSUR region.
CORFO “Corporación de Fomento para la Producciòn” (Economic Development Agency) is an autonomous Development Agency of Chilean Government in charge of promoting economic development and technological support for entrepreneurs, either on national and international level.
Its main purpose is to promote Chilean manufacturing development in accordance with the guidelines of free-market policy and investment for business modernization aiming at improve worldwide the central role of Chile for settlement of investment.
For that purpose, among its multiple range of tasks and features, CORFO issued Hith Technology and Todochile Programmes.
Hith Technology Programme provides technology transfer in order to enable Chile as technology and service platform.
Todochile Programme promotes investment opportunities in the Chilean regions contributing to an international as well as regional development and improvement of their foreign trade.
Furthermore, CORFO encourages investment opportunities providing non-refundable grants, CORFO credit line and tax advantage.
To better comprehend the strategic task of Chilean industrialization process, we should briefly outline its history.
CORFO was established around the ‘40s, as a consequence of a inner national financial crisis caused by multiple factors.
Afterwards, CORFO accomplished the function that private sector couldn’t afford by launching the start up of the main Chilean business companies in order to improve country industrialization.
Throughout this period, CORFO directly fostered the economic development providing the start up of enterprises; nonetheless, during that years CORFO achieved a changing role by starting a slowly and gradual privatization of several holding companies and joint ventures. Actually, CORFO holding is composed by 39 companies, among the most important in Chile, as majority shareholder or joint venture.




