Carmelo is a family owned business that was established in 1955 by Carmelo Figueroa and his wife Sara Padilla. Initially, Carmelo was a manual masonry manufacturing operation located in the town of Naranjito. Fueled by the rapid growth of Puerto Rico’s economy during Operation Bootstrap, Carmelo expanded its operations considerably. By 1977 the company had become mainly an aggregates producer and achieved a successful transition as a second generation family business.

Productora de Agregados, founded in 1977, Canarico Quarries, acquired in 1995 and Cantera Carmelo acquired in 2004, make up our construction materials division and produce aggregates and manufactured sands that are used in nearly every form of construction.

Currently, we are developing Agregados Carmelo at the Cantera Virgen del Carmen quarry in the Dominican Republic in order to export aggregates to Puerto Rico as well as other islands in the Caribbean region and the East Coast of the United States.