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Hydraulic & industrial hose supplier in Chile

Indus Hydraulics ships hydraulic hose, fittings, valves and industrial hose from Dubai to Chile by sea into San Antonio or Valparaíso, transhipped to Antofagasta and Mejillones for the northern mining region, with air freight to Santiago, under a Dubai Chamber attested certificate of origin and Spanish documents. It is the longest sea lane we run, 40–52 days, and none of it is paperwork. So Chile suits planned copper-mine consumables ordered against the shutdown calendar, specified for Atacama altitude.

Typical transit
Typically 40–52 days by sea to San Antonio or Valparaíso · 44–56 days transhipped to Antofagasta or Mejillones · Air freight 6–9 days to Santiago
Freight
Sea freight from Jebel Ali round the Cape and through the Panama Canal to San Antonio or Valparaíso · Antofagasta and Mejillones for the northern mining region · Air freight into Santiago where the schedule is tighter
Incoterms 2020
CIF San Antonio · DAP to the buyer’s site or mine gate · FOB Jebel Ali · EXW Dubai for a nominated forwarder
Documentation
Customs declaration raised by the importer · Certificate of Origin, Dubai Chamber attested · Documents in Spanish · Material and test certificates where the mine specification calls for them
Fig. 01 · Export lane DXB → CLMercator · WGS 84
PARAGUAYSAN ANTONIO · PORTSANTIAGOANTOFAGASTACALAMAIQUIQUEARICACOPIAPÓCONCEPCIÓNPUERTO MONTT120°W115°W110°W105°W100°W95°W90°W85°W80°W75°W70°W65°W60°W55°W55°S50°S45°S40°S35°S30°S25°S20°SN800 KMSEA · CANAL · 25,680 KM · FROM JEBEL ALI · DXB
Port of entryDelivery citysea · canal corridor from JEBEL ALI · DXB
Origin
Jebel Ali · Dubai
Primary mode
Sea, via the Canal
Port of entry
San Antonio
Transit
40–52 days
Quoted in
USD
Docs prepared
Before the vessel sails
Warehouse aisle with racked reels of hydraulic hose on one side and bins of steel hose fittings and adapters on the other

01 · Stock

Stock held in Dubai, not drop-shipped from a factory queue.

Technician in safety glasses crimping a steel fitting onto a hydraulic hose, tagged assemblies and a pressure-test cabinet behind

02 · Assembly

Assemblies crimped and pressure-tested before they are packed.

Export documents and certificates fanned out on a desk beside a rubber stamp, a pen and a hydraulic hose fitting

03 · Documents

Conformity set for Chile prepared while the order is picked.

Flatbed trailer loaded with shrink-wrapped hydraulic hose coils and cartons, strapped down at a warehouse yard gate

04 · Dispatch

One consignment, one set of documents, tracking on dispatch.

Catalogue · 21 clusters · 289 ranges

What we supply to Chile

Browse the full catalogue

Everything below ships from the same Dubai warehouse, so a mixed order travels as one consignment under one set of documents. Open any card for its full list of ranges, or follow a heading through to specifications and an RFQ.

Hydraulic hose, fittings and adapters — wire-braid, spiral, compact and thermoplastic hose, crimp fittings and ferrules, SAE J518 flanges, quick couplers, and DIN 2353, BSP, JIC 37°, ORFS, metric and NPT thread forms. Carbon steel and SS316L.

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Industrial hoses for air, water, food, oil, chemical, steam and abrasive applications. Own-brand Indus rubber and PVC lines alongside engineered metallic and PTFE hose assemblies.

Shackles, hooks, lifting chain, wire rope, slings, hoists and blocks for lifting and rigging — each size under an Indus part number, with the working load limit wherever the manufacturer rates it. Supplied from Dubai with the manufacturer's test certificate.

Wellhead, frac, and process oilfield valves — ball, gate, check, plug, choke, globe, butterfly, surface safety (SSV/ESD), pressure relief, instrumentation. API 6A / 6D / 16C, sour and standard service.

WECO frac iron, integral fittings, hammer unions, swivel joints, manifolds, API 6A flanges, wellhead systems, and surface test trees for upstream oil and gas. 1K to 20K psi, sour and standard service. FMC / Cameron / SPM / Anson / NOV / Stream-Flo / Indus.

DEMCO resilient-seated butterfly valves from 2″ to 36″ with actuators, gear operators and handles, Victaulic grooved butterfly valves, industrial and high-pressure hydraulic ball valves, and Yuken CETOP 3 solenoid directional, relief and modular valves.

Annular and ram blowout preventers built to the Hydril GK and Cameron U patterns, ram blocks, control units, choke & kill manifolds, diverters, drilling spools and BOP spares for onshore and offshore drilling, with sour-service (NACE MR0175) construction.

Oilfield instrumentation & controls — data acquisition, flowmeters (magnetic / turbine / Coriolis), pressure sensors, gauges, thermometers, AC/DC converters, VFD systems, ex-proof electrical panels.

Surface well-testing packages — 3-phase separators, MPFM systems, surge tanks, KO drums, flare stacks, test pumps, sand filters, ESD panels, data headers, piping packages.

Frac fleet equipment — pumpers up to 3,000 HP, transfer pumps, missiles, sand silos, blenders, hydration units, LAS, data vans, and frac tanks.

Enerpac torque wrenches, bolt tensioners, flange tools, jacks, pullers, presses and cutters, Stanley hydraulic power tools and Pierce winches, listed by series with every model number.

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Send the part list for Chile

Part numbers if you have them; bore, thread and pressure if you do not. A photo of the failed part is usually enough.

One line per item. Quantities and lengths help us quote from stock.

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Standards

Standards we supply and certify against for Chile

StandardTypesApplies to
EN 8531SN · 2SNWire-braid hydraulic hose
EN 8564SP · 4SHSpiral-wire hydraulic hose
EN 8571SC · 2SCCompact wire-braid hose
SAE J517100R1 · R2 · R12 · R13 · R15SAE hydraulic hose series
ISO 18752Grades A–DPerformance-based hose classification
API 16CChoke & killWell control flexible lines
API 7KRotary & vibratorDrilling hose
API 6APSL 1–4Wellhead equipment
DIN 2353L · S seriesBite-type tube couplings
ISO 8434-124° coneMetric tube connections
ISO 6162 / 12151Code 61 · 62SAE flange and hose connections
EN 14420-5ClampedIndustrial hose couplings
NACE MR0175ISO 15156Sour-service materials
ISO 9001:2015CertifiedQuality management system

Customs

Tariff lines we declare under

  • 4009.22Rubber tube, reinforced with metal, with fittingsHydraulic hose assemblies
  • 4009.42Rubber tube, reinforced with other materials, with fittingsIndustrial hose assemblies
  • 7307.91Flanges, iron or steelSAE and API flanges
  • 7307.99Tube and pipe fittings, iron or steelAdapters, nipples, couplings
  • 8481.80Taps, cocks, valves and similar appliancesBall, gate, butterfly, needle
  • 8413.60Rotary positive displacement pumpsGear and vane pumps
  • 8412.21Hydraulic power engines, linear actingCylinders
  • 3403.99Lubricating preparationsGreases, pastes, compounds

Classification is confirmed line by line at quotation. This is the set most consignments to Chile are declared under.

Freight

Three ways in, priced per shipment

Sea, FCL40–52 days
Jebel Ali to San Antonio, via the CanalDefault for most orders
Air freight6–9 days
DXB to SCL, with a connectionWhen the line is down
Sea, northern ports44–56 days
Transhipped for Antofagasta or MejillonesThe mining region

Sequence

How an order to Chile works

  1. 01Send the part numbers, or the bore, thread and pressure if you do not have them. A photo of the failed part is usually enough.
  2. 02We quote in USD against real stock, with the Incoterm stated on the Estimate rather than assumed.
  3. 03The description is agreed in Spanish across the invoice, the packing list and the declaration, and the mine specification is confirmed line by line before the container is loaded.
  4. 04Goods sail from Jebel Ali round the Cape and through the Canal, and you get the paperwork and tracking together.

Industries

Who we supply in Chile

Delivery coverage

Cities and sites we deliver to in Chile

DAP deliveries go to the site gate. Coordinates are given because project sites are easier to name that way than by address.

16 locations listed

  • Santiago

    Región Metropolitana

  • San Antonio

    Valparaíso

  • Valparaíso

    Valparaíso

  • Antofagasta

    Antofagasta

  • Mejillones

    Antofagasta

  • Calama

    Antofagasta

  • Iquique

    Tarapacá

  • Arica

    Arica y Parinacota

  • Copiapó

    Atacama

  • La Serena

    Coquimbo

  • Rancagua

    O'Higgins

  • Concepción

    Biobío

  • Talcahuano

    Biobío

  • Puerto Montt

    Los Lagos

  • Chuquicamata

    Antofagasta

  • Los Andes

    Valparaíso

Questions we get asked

Supplying Chile, in detail

01

Why does a container from Dubai take seven weeks to reach San Antonio?

Because there is no short sea route from the Gulf to the Pacific coast of South America. The routing rounds the Cape of Good Hope, crosses the South Atlantic, tranships and transits the Panama Canal, giving 40 to 52 days to San Antonio or Valparaíso. Nothing in the Chilean customs file adds to that; the transit is distance, and the answer to it is planning rather than air freight.

02

What makes it worth buying from Dubai for a Chilean mine?

Planned consumables, not breakdowns. Spiral hose, crimp fittings and valve spares quoted against a specification and shipped once in a consolidated container land well below the cost of the same parts sourced against a shutdown date. For anything urgent we are the wrong supplier on this lane and will say so. The value is in batching what you already know you will consume.

03

Should our cargo go to San Antonio or to Antofagasta and Mejillones?

San Antonio or Valparaíso for Santiago, the central valley and the south; Antofagasta or Mejillones for the northern mining region around Calama, Escondida and Chuquicamata. The northern ports are reached by transhipment and take 44 to 56 days against 40 to 52 for San Antonio, but they save a road leg of well over a thousand kilometres to the mines.

04

What does Chilean customs require for hydraulic hose and fittings?

Very little: Chile has one of the lighter import regimes on the continent, with no general pre-shipment conformity scheme, inspection or registration for industrial hose and fittings. The file is the customs import declaration raised by the importer through Aduanas, our invoice, a packing list in Spanish matching the declaration, the bill of lading and a Dubai Chamber attested certificate of origin.

05

Can you deliver to mine sites above Calama and Antofagasta?

Yes, on DAP terms to the mine gate. The road leg from Antofagasta, Mejillones or Calama up to a site at three thousand metres or more is quoted, not estimated, because it is a real climb on a real road with its own access rules. CIF San Antonio or a northern port is also available if your logistics provider handles the inland move.

06

How does Atacama altitude change the hose and seal specification?

It changes what we recommend. At three thousand metres and above, seal compounds, cooling capacity and cycle life behave differently from the datasheet, and suction lines see more vacuum. Tell us the site altitude and the machine at quotation, and we flag where a standard specification is the wrong choice before the container is loaded rather than after the first failure.

07

Which flexible connections should we specify for seismic movement in Chilean plants?

Flexible sections wherever a line crosses between independently mounted equipment, installed with slack and a bend radius that lets them move. Rigid pipework transmits ground movement straight to a flange, which is where fractures appear after an earthquake. A hose pulled tight between two fixed points behaves like a rigid member with a weaker wall. Where temperature or media rule out rubber, braided metallic hose does the same job.

08

Do you supply hose to SAE J517, EN 856 and ISO 18752 for Chilean haul fleets?

Yes. We supply spiral and braided hydraulic hose and the matching crimp fittings to SAE J517, EN 853, EN 856 and ISO 18752 references, with JIC, ORFS, SAE flange and metric end connections. Mine specifications in Chile usually cite one of these per machine, so send the specification or the existing hose markings and we match line by line, with material and test certificates where required.

09

Do Chilean import documents have to be in Spanish?

Yes. The documents are in Spanish, and the description of each line has to agree across the invoice, the packing list and the declaration made through Aduanas. We fix that wording at quotation and confirm the mine specification line by line before the container is loaded, so nothing is reworded once the vessel has sailed.

10

How fast can air freight reach Santiago when a line is down?

Typically 6 to 9 days from Dubai to Santiago (SCL) with a connection, quoted per shipment. It makes sense for a single critical assembly or valve; it rarely makes sense for bulk consumables, which belong in the planned sea consignment. Onward delivery from Santiago to the north is quoted with the air freight when the site is in the mining region.

11

How should a Chilean mine plan a shutdown order from Dubai?

Work back from the shutdown date by the sea transit plus clearance: 40 to 52 days to San Antonio, 44 to 56 to Antofagasta or Mejillones. Send the shutdown scope, the part list or hose markings, the site altitude and the delivery point; we quote in US dollars on CIF, DAP to the mine gate, FOB Jebel Ali or EXW Dubai, and consolidate it into one consignment.

12

Do you supply hydraulics for the salmon farms and fleet around Puerto Montt?

Yes — hose assemblies, fittings and valves for cranes, winches, net-handling and deck machinery on aquaculture workboats and fishing vessels in the south. Saltwater exposure matters more than pressure here, so tell us where each line runs and we specify covers and fitting plating to suit, routed through San Antonio with onward delivery quoted to Puerto Montt.

Next step

Shipping to Chile?

Send the part numbers, or the bore, thread and pressure if you do not have them. We quote from real stock, in USD, with the Incoterm stated rather than assumed.

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