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Explore our core overmolded busbar product range — designed for demanding Chilean industrial, energy storage, and EV applications.
Chile is one of South America's fastest-growing markets for advanced electrical interconnection technology. Driven by massive investments in renewable energy, lithium mining, and EV infrastructure, demand for high-performance overmolded busbars is surging across multiple sectors.
Chile's Atacama Desert receives some of the world's highest solar irradiance. With over 5 GW of installed solar capacity and projects like the massive Cauchari-Olaroz and Cerro Dominador plants, overmolded busbars are critical for safe, reliable DC power distribution in utility-scale solar inverters and battery energy storage systems (BESS).
Chile holds over 40% of the world's known lithium reserves and is the top global copper producer. Mining operations — from Codelco's Chuquicamata to SQM's lithium fields in the Salar de Atacama — require robust, high-current overmolded busbars for electric mining vehicles, power distribution panels, and electrification of underground operations.
Santiago is home to Latin America's largest electric bus fleet, with over 2,000 electric buses in operation. This rapid EV adoption creates strong demand for high-voltage overmolded busbars used in battery packs, charging infrastructure, and powertrain systems — a sector growing at 30%+ annually in Chile.
Chile's manufacturing sector — including food processing, paper & pulp, and petrochemicals — is undergoing rapid automation. Overmolded busbars provide compact, insulated power distribution solutions for CNC machines, robotics, variable frequency drives (VFDs), and smart factory power systems across industrial parks in Santiago, Valparaíso, and Concepción.
Chile's National Energy Commission has approved multiple grid-scale BESS projects to stabilize its variable renewable grid. These projects require precision-engineered overmolded busbars for battery module interconnection, capable of handling high current densities while providing superior insulation and vibration resistance in harsh outdoor environments.
Major Chilean ports — Valparaíso, San Antonio, and Antofagasta — are investing in shore power systems and electric cargo handling equipment. Overmolded busbars are essential components in port crane power systems, electric reach stackers, and harbor vessel shore power connection units, driving demand in Chile's logistics sector.
Our overmolded busbars are engineered to meet the specific environmental, regulatory, and performance demands of the Chilean market — from the extreme aridity of the Atacama to the seismic activity of the Andes region.
Chile's ambitious energy transition and industrial modernization are creating unprecedented demand for advanced electrical interconnection components. Here are the key trends shaping the overmolded busbar market in Chile through 2030.
Chile has committed to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, with a 2030 target of 70% renewable electricity generation. This requires massive deployment of solar, wind, and BESS infrastructure — all of which rely on high-performance overmolded busbars for power distribution and battery interconnection systems.
Chile is positioning itself as a value-added lithium battery manufacturing hub, not just a raw material exporter. New battery cell and pack manufacturing facilities are being established, creating local demand for overmolded busbars as critical components in cell contact systems (CCS) and battery management systems (BMS).
Chile's EV market is projected to grow by over 300% by 2030, driven by government incentives, falling battery costs, and urban air quality regulations in Santiago. This growth directly translates to demand for high-voltage overmolded busbars in EV battery packs, on-board chargers, and DC-DC converters.
Chile's National Green Hydrogen Strategy targets 5 GW of electrolysis capacity by 2030. Electrolyzers require robust busbar systems for high-current DC power distribution. SANCO's overmolded busbars — with their superior current capacity and insulation — are ideal for this emerging Chilean industrial sector.
Chile's mining industry has committed over $10 billion to electrification projects through 2030. The shift from diesel to electric haul trucks, shovels, and underground equipment requires high-current overmolded busbars capable of withstanding mine vibration, dust, and extreme temperature cycles.
Chile's transmission system operator (Coordinador Eléctrico Nacional) is investing heavily in smart grid modernization, including digital substations that require compact, high-performance overmolded busbars for power electronics, protection relays, and SCADA system power supplies.
SANCO overmolded busbars are deployed across Chile's most critical industrial and energy infrastructure — from the Atacama Desert to Patagonia.
Utility-scale solar + storage projects in Region II (Antofagasta) and Region I (Tarapacá) use SANCO overmolded busbars in battery rack interconnections, inverter DC bus connections, and combiner box power distribution, ensuring reliable operation in extreme UV and dust conditions.
Santiago's Transantiago electric bus network and Metro Line expansions deploy high-voltage overmolded busbars in fast-charging stations (150kW–350kW), traction battery packs, and auxiliary power units — ensuring safe, compact power distribution in urban transport systems.
Chile's state copper and lithium mining companies are deploying electric haul trucks and LHD vehicles. SANCO overmolded busbars provide the high-current, vibration-resistant interconnections required for 800V+ mining EV battery systems operating in Chuquicamata and Salar de Atacama.
Southern Chile's wind energy projects in Magallanes — including the ambitious HIF Global e-fuels plant — require overmolded busbars in wind turbine converters, offshore substation power electronics, and electrolyzer power supplies for green hydrogen production.
Manufacturing facilities in Chile's central industrial corridor use SANCO overmolded busbars in motor drives, PLC power supplies, UPS systems, and industrial robot power distribution — providing compact, safe, and maintenance-free power interconnection solutions.
Chile's national oil company ENAP operates refineries in Concepción and Magallanes that require explosion-proof, high-current overmolded busbars for motor control centers, power distribution boards, and variable speed drive systems in hazardous area classifications.
Founded in 1999, SANCO is well known as a connection system solutions provider and a national high-tech enterprise integrating R&D, design, manufacturing, sales and after sales support for connectivity products. It is committed to becoming a leader in the field of connectivity technology and products.
SANCO specializes in the R&D and manufacturing of electrical interconnection systems for automotive, rail transit, industrial, communications, and energy storage applications, including: high voltage EV connector, energy storage connector, EV charging connectors, manual service disconnect (MSD) units, Laminated busbar, Injection-molded busbar, signal and circular connectors, cell contact systems (CCS) and various precision components.
As a prominent industry leader, SANCO delivers comprehensive connection system solutions to clients worldwide. Our products are exported to over 100 countries worldwide, including major markets like China, North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Our solutions have been widely adopted by global Fortune 500 companies and industry-leading enterprises.
Leveraging two decades of profound technical expertise, our company has built an outstanding R&D team of over 200 professionals. The team consists of talents from world-renowned universities and leading institutions in the industry, with core members having previously worked in top three global connector companies, ensuring our technology and vision remain globally forward-looking.
The team demonstrates exceptional competence, with over 95% holding bachelor's degrees or higher, forming a powerful knowledge-intensive innovation engine. To translate cutting-edge ideas into exceptional products, the company has invested significantly in establishing an advanced independent laboratory equipped with more than 100 specialized precision instruments.
This lab offers comprehensive capabilities, efficiently conducting rigorous reliability validation, IP rating certifications, raw material composition analysis, high-performance electrical testing, precision dimensional measurements, and environmental tests simulating various extreme conditions. This complete in-house verification system greatly accelerates the R&D cycle and ensures high performance, reliability, and quality of every connector product from the design stage onward, providing solid hardware support for our continuous leadership in industry technological innovation and solutions for clients through entire product life cycle.
- Product R&D
- Extensive product knowledge
- Materials expertise
- Computational modeling
- National high-tech enterprise certification
- IATF 16949, ISO 14001:2015
- ISO 9001:2015, ISO/TS 22163 (IRIS)
- CNAS, UL, RoHS, IATF, SGS, TUV, GB
- 95% bachelor's degree or above
- Includes Masters and PhD
- 80% from MNC background
- High-current connector IP rights
- Manual service disconnect patent
- High-voltage flat plug terminal patent
- Battery pack HV connector patent
- New energy busbar current connector patent
- Network server busbar patent
Our state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities ensure the highest quality overmolded busbars for Chile's demanding industrial and energy applications.
Comprehensive range of busbar and connector solutions for Chile's energy, mining, EV, and industrial sectors.
