FIPA, is the acronym for Federación Iberoamericana de Productores de Agregados (Latin American Aggregates Producers Federation)
The FIPA; with headquarters on Madrid, at Travesía de Téllez 4 , it is a non-profit organization, and it’s scope of activity is developed in Spain, Portugal and all central American and Caribbean countries.
The authorities of FIPA are the General Assembly, the President and the General Secretary.
The President is Mr. Roberto L. Cuevas la Vera, from Panamá’s Mining Chamber.
The General Secretary is Mr. Carlos Forero Bonell, from ASOGRAVAS (Colombian Aggregates Producers Association)
The General Manager is Mr. César Luaces Frades, from FdA, Spanish Aggregates Federation.

Nowadays, the FIPA has representatives from different countries such as; Spain, Portugal, Costa Rica, Panamá, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico; Colombia; Ecuador; Peru; Venezuela; Brazil; Argentina; Chile; Bolivia.
It is possible to become a member of the federation, to all the (accredited identified recognized and declared) associations or organizations at national level representing the interests of aggregates sector. May become a member of the Federation, too, a company, that will be classified, in this case, as a representative association of aggregates production sector by its country (if there were no national association)
Nowadays, are member the Panama Mining Chamber, the Costa Rica Mining Chamber, the Dominican Aggregates Producers Association, the Spanish Aggregates Federation FdA, the Province of Buenos Aires Stone Chamber, the Brazilian Aggregates for Construction Producer Association ANEPAC; the Colombian Aggregates and Stone Producer Association ASOGRAVAS, CEMEX from Mexico, and Aggregates from Guatemala.

Official languages of the Federation are Spanish and Portuguese.

The FIPA’s aims are promoting the common interests of represented companies trough the associations or national organizations and to represent and to stimulate the aggregates sector interests, to make understand and outline the economic value and its social responsibility.

Constituent objectives

1. Promote the constitution of associations or aggregates producers organizations in the countries of its members as well as other countries
2. Represent the Latin American aggregates producers in the presence of the adequate international institutions, introducing them the initiatives, objectives and petitions belonging to the aggregates area. To cooperate with those institutions on issues concerning the profit of the Federation and other member institutions.
3. To cooperate with the Latin American countries Governments in works resulting on benefits for aggregates sector.
4. To watch the different processes susceptible of affecting the aggregates sector and try to have influence, active and responsibly on those processes, to get reasonable results, practices that allow the aggregates sector to operate in a profitable way, and to keep or improve their competitivity.
5. To establish relation, cooperation and information links with other similar organizations or related to the construction sector, to promote the creation of forums, seminaries, symposiums, working days and Latin-American conferences related to the sector.
6. To favour the research and development of technologies in aggregates production, with the purpose of making more competitively the activity of its members.
7. To promote and to establish searching mechanisms, analysis, research and development of programs which allow their associates being competitive to take profits of the advantages and benefits that international agreements are offering.
8. To keep a members data base the widest and representative as possible, joining the national associations representative of aggregates sector, and setting up a communication cannel to Exchange information, programs, projects, initiatives, experiences and ideas.
9. To favour, facilitate and to promote that the aggregates sector’s development will be framed into the current philosophy of the sustainable development of aggregates sector, spreading norms and technical codes and identifying, codifying, promoting and spreading the most adequate methods concerning health and safety and environment.
10. To gather and spread appropriate statistics and technical information on the sector and it’s products.
11. To promote and when necessary, to create committees and working groups, to face effective and efficiently the expected performance of the Federation
12. To contribute with the process of formalization and legalization of aggregates industry in countries where there were activities out of local established laws or norms.
13. To favour the creation of educational centers, training, edition and publication of technical studies on aggregates.
14. In general terms, to carry out any similar function appropriate to the Federation.