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{{Infobox building
| name = Coltejer Building
| image =Edificio Coltejer-Medellin.jpg
| caption =
| location = [[Medellín]], [[Antioquia Department|Antioquia]], [[Colombia]]
| coordinates = {{coord|6|15|00|N|75|33|58|W|type:landmark_scale:10000_region:CO_source:kolossus-frwiki|display=inline,title}}
| start_date = 1968
| completion_date = 1972
| architect = [[Raúl Fajardo Moreno]], Saldarriaga, Samper and Manjarres
| owner = Coltejer S. A.
| cost =
| floor_area = {{convert|42000|m2|sqft|abbr=on}}
| top_floor =
| floor_count = 36
| references =
| building_type = Office
| antenna_spire =
| roof = {{convert|175|m|ft|abbr=on}}
| elevator_count = 11
| structural_engineer = Jaime Muñoz Duque
| main_contractor = Rafael Pacheco
| opening =
| developer =
| management =
}}

The '''Coltejer Building''' is the tallest building in [[Medellín]], [[Colombia]] and the tenth-tallest in Colombia as of 2016. It was completed in 1972. Coltejer is one of the most important textile companies in Colombia, and the largest textile complex in [[Latin America]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Latin America Economic Report|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tv1CAAAAYAAJ|year=1979|publisher=Latin American Newsletters Limited}}</ref> It was founded in Medellín by Alejandro Echavarría on October 22, 1907.<ref>Compañía Colombiana de Tejidos (''Colombian Textile Company'') Coltejer: [http://www.coltejer.com.co/empresa.htm History of the Company] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070612045409/http://www.coltejer.com.co/empresa.htm |date=2007-06-12 }}, [[Itagüí]], Colombia, Retrieved on May 7, 2008.</ref>

==Building history==
Colombia began a skyscraper building era in the 1960s in Medellín. The Coltejer Building was designed by architects [[Raúl Fajardo]], Aníbal Saldarriaga, Germán Samper, and Jorge Manjarres. Its construction required the demolition of the art nouveau [[Edificio Gonzalo Mejía]] which contained the Junín Theatre and the Hotel Europa.

With a height of {{Convert|175|m|}}, the Coltejer Building was the fourth-tallest building in Colombia, and was the tallest building in South America at the time of its completion. It is said to resemble a [[sewing machine needle]], representing the textile company after which it is named.

===Statistics===
*Height: 175 metres
*Area: 42,000 square metres.
*Floors: 36
*Parking spaces: 150
*Elevators: 11

The Coltejer Building can host 40,000 seated people and 168,000 standing people.

==Coltejer==
[[File:Plaza Botero7.JPG|200px|thumbnail|right|A view of [[Botero Plaza]] and the Coltejer building in the background from the [[Museum of Antioquia]]]]

===History===
The Echavarría family were the founders of two textile companies, Coltejer and Fabricato, and were also involved in coffee exportation and importation of other goods. In 1907, Alejandro Echavarría decided to import four [[power loom]]s, which he put to work along with twelve workers in the patio of his coffee-processing plant.<ref name="BergquistPeñaranda2001">{{cite book|author1=Charles Bergquist|author2=Ricardo Peñaranda|author3=Gonzalo Sánchez|title=Violence in Colombia, 1990-2000: Waging War and Negotiating Peace|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4SptAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA42|date=1 March 2001|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers|isbn=978-1-4616-4669-3|pages=42–}}</ref> This was the beginning of Coltejer.

During the Depression era, Coltejer bought discarded looms cheaply from the United States that were brought in on muleback.<ref name="Weible1991">{{cite book|author=Robert Weible|title=The Continuing Revolution: A History of Lowell, Massachusetts|url=https://archive.org/details/continuingrevolu00weib|url-access=registration|date=1 December 1991|publisher=Lowell Historical Society|isbn=978-0-9631604-0-9}}</ref> During World War II, Coltejer was operating some 70,000 [[Spindle (textiles)|spindles]] and 1,900 looms, employing 4,000 workers in its Medellin plant in addition to those at [[Envigado]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Ibero-Americana|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rZ14AAAAIAAJ|year=1949|publisher=University of California Press}}</ref>

===Production===
Coltejer's profits increased by a factor of twenty between 1940 and 1949, from 830,000 pesos to 16,520,000.<ref name="Roldán2002">{{cite book|author=Mary Roldán|title=Blood and Fire: La Violencia in Antioquia, Colombia, 1946–1953|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PbcdBeNPPfwC&pg=PA320|date=21 May 2002|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=978-0-8223-8369-7|pages=320–}}</ref>

Coltejer has a total fabric production capacity of about 60 million metres, of which 90% is used to produce clothing and 10% is to make home textiles.<ref name="Commission">{{cite book|author=U.S. International Trade Commission|title=Andean Trade Preference Act: Impact on U.S. Industries and Consumers and on Drug Crop Eradication and Crop Substitution, 13th Report 2007, Inv. 332-352|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aJPy1ea6MogC&pg=SA3-PA29|publisher=DIANE Publishing|isbn=978-1-4578-1724-3|pages=3–}}</ref> It is also one of the leading [[denim]] producers in Colombia. Coltejer works with 67 exclusive distributors and 77 [[wholesale]]rs in Colombia.<ref>{{cite book|title=Textile Outlook International|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tKK1AAAAIAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Economist Publications Limited}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[List of tallest buildings in South America]]
* [[List of tallest buildings in Colombia]]

==References==
{{Commons category|Edificio Coltejer}}
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{{Skyscrapers in Colombia}}
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[[Category:Buildings and structures in Medellín]]
[[Category:Skyscraper office buildings in Colombia]]
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