About Us

Consorcio Alpaquero Perú Export

Our Mission

Calpex is an organization of associations and cooperatives of South American camelids’ breedersfounded in 2013 to address the most urgent needs of the sector: to allow the small organizations of quechua and ayamara breeders from the High Andean Regions of Peru to export directly, without intermediaries, the fiber produced by pastoral farming.

The holdings

Calpex is born from 7 associations of breeders from Puno Region Over the years, Calpex achieved to involve more than 30 associations for almost 2000 breeders from the High Andean Regions of Puno, Cusco, Arequipa and Apurimac, most of them are quechua and aymarafamilies who succeeded to export semi-processed raw material (alpaca tops) to Italian textile companies.

Calpex is an organization of associations and cooperatives of South American camelids’ breeders founded in 2013 to address the most urgent needs of the sector: to allow the small organizations of quechua and ayamara breeders from the High Andean Regions of Perùto export directly, without intermediaries, the fiber produced by pastoral farming.

The holdings

Exchanges and continuous dialogue

Calpex is born with a strong commitment to do business with Italian textile companies, to improve and prepare its own product to be competitive in a highly selective market. In these years, we organized six visits form Per ú to meet the partnering companies and to understand the demands of our clients. We also organizedthree missions for our main Italian technical and commercial partners in Peru, with the participation of Fratelli Piacenza spa, Polipeli spa and Pettinatura di Verrone.

Alina Surquislla Gomez from our technical staff, responsible of fiber classification and washing monitoring, has participated to a one-month practical training at Polipeli spa and Pettinatura di Verrone of Biella (Italy), during which she has deepened her knowledge and skills and has directly observed the quality of the raw materials used and the industrial processes applied.

In this way, we are building a fair and sustainable supply chain, which respects the environment and our animals and where the breeders are called to take first-hand responsibility in order to fulfil the requirements of a demanding and constantly evolving market.

Thanks to our activity,the breeders can benefit from a better price than the one offered by local intermediaries and can manage all the processing stages – production, shearing, classification, washing and combing – while keeping the quality standards, the costs and the market prices monitored.

In this way, we are building a fair and sustainable supply chain, which respects the environment and our animals and where the breeders are called to take first-hand responsibility in order to fulfil the requirements of a demanding and constantly evolving market.

Thanks to our activity,the breeders can benefit from a better price than the one offered by local intermediaries and can manage all the processing stages – production, shearing, classification, washing and combing – while keeping the quality standards, the costs and the market prices monitored.

Collaborations

Since the beginning, Calpex has been supported by ISCOS Emilia-Romagna and ISCOS Toscana, in collaboration with the textile Federation union Femca Cisl of Piemonte, Emilia-Romagna and Toscana, and Cisl Emilia Centrale.

Calpex is partner of the project “Weaving Solidarity (Tessendo la solidarietà) – sustainable local development and social entrepreneurship for the enhancement of work and products of the textile value chain deriving from the breeding of South American camelids (CSA) in Perú and Bolivia“, funded by AICS / Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, realized by Progettoomondo.mlal of Verona in partnership with ISCOS Emilia-Romagna, Femca Piemonte, Lanificio Fratelli Piacenza spa, Agenzia Lane d’Italia and the University of Camerino.