Other Press Releases

SQM announced today that it has filed its 2009 Annual Report on Form 20-F with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The Form 20-F is available on the Company’s website (www.sqm.com).
01-07-2010

SQM announces 144A bond issuance
21-04-2010

SQM reported that it has priced today U.S.$250 million aggregate principal amount of 5.50% Notes due 2020. The notes will be offered to investors at a price of 99.817% of principal amount.
14-04-2010

SQM announced today that its Board of Directors has unanimously agreed to propose to lower the dividend policy from 65% to 50% of net income at the Company’s next Annual Shareholders Meeting to be held on April 29, 2010.
16-03-2010

SQM reports changes to its Director's Committee
02-03-2010

SQM reports no damage to its facilities
01-03-2010

SQM announces changes to El Toco and Pampa Blanca operations
23-02-2010

In December 2009, SQM signed a joint venture agreement with the French Roullier Group to create SQM VITAS.
08-01-2010

SQM announces that late October the company has signed an agreement with Qingdao Star resulting in the creation of the joint venture SQM Qingdao.
08-01-2010

SQM reports its General Transitory Policy for Frequent-Ordinary Operations of SQM S.A.
04-01-2010

Santiago, Chile, November 17, 2009.- SQM announced the payment of an interim dividend in the amount of US$0.37994 per share.
17-11-2009

SQM announces supply contract with PCS
30-04-2009

SQM announced that prices for lithium carbonate and lithium hydroxide will be reduced by approximately 20% from current levels.
30-09-2009

SQM announced today that it has filed its 2008 Annual Report on Form 20-F with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The Form 20-F is available on the Company’s website (www.sqm.com).
01-07-2009

SQM announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Coromandel Fertilizers Ltd. (“Coromandel”) to create a joint venture (“JV”) for the production and distribution of water soluble fertilizers in India.
28-05-2009

SQM reported today that shareholders at the Company’s Annual Shareholders’ Meeting held today approved a number of proposals, including distribution of a gross dividend of Ch$515.90268 (approximately US$0.85835, based on the observed exchange rate as of April 29, 2009) per share beginning May 11, 2009.
29-04-2009

SQM announced that its Board of Directors has unanimously agreed to propose a gross dividend of US$1.23829 per share at its 2009 annual shareholders meeting. This amount is equivalent to 65% of the Company’s distributable net income for the year 2008 and is in accordance with SQM’s current dividend distribution policy.
07-04-2009

SQM RESULTS 1H08 AND MARKET OUTLOOK
20-08-2008

Santiago, Chile, September 30, 2008.- SQM in light of the high volatility experienced by world stock markets and in SQM share price, reiterated its statements from its second quarter 2008 earnings release, regarding its expectations that results for the second half of this year will be significantly higher than both the results for the first half of this year and the results for the second half of 2007.
30-09-2008

Santiago, Chile, October 29, 2008.- SQM announced that its Board of Directors, at its meeting held October 28, 2008, approved the registration of a bond program.
30-10-2008

Santiago, Chile, October 9, 2008.- SQM announced that effective October 1st, 2008, or as contracts permit, the Company has increased the price of iodine by 25%.
09-10-2008

SQM Roadshow Presentation
30-10-2008

Santiago, Chile, October 29,2008.- SQM announced the payment of an interim dividend in the amount of US$0.37994 per share.
29-10-2008

Response to Letter No. 19.749 from the Superintendence of Securities and Insurance.
28-07-2008

SQM announced its Capex Plan for the three-year period between 2008 and 2010. The plan includes projected capital expenditures of approximately US$1 billion over the period, including approximately US$350 million for the year 2008.
24-07-2008

SQM announced today that it has filed its 2007 Annual Report on Form 20-F with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The document is available on the Company’s Web site, at www.sqm.com.
27-06-2008

SQM announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Migao Corporation (“Migao”) to create a joint venture (“JV”) for the production and distribution of potassium nitrate in China. The agreement, signed on May 18, 2008, establishes a 50/50 contribution to the JV. The first step of this agreement will be the construction of a new 40,000 metric ton potassium nitrate facility…
20-05-2008

SQM is participating as a gold sponsor in the 8th International Automotive Battery and Ultracapacitor Conference and Symposia, which is taking place this week in Tampa, Florida. At this event, the world’s largest automotive companies and energy storage developers are meeting to discuss the latest technological progress and market direction for the use of lithium batteries in hybrid electric vehicles (HEV).
15-05-2008

Santiago, Chile, April 30, 2008.- Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile S.A. (SQM) (NYSE: SQM; Santiago Stock Exchange: SQM-B, SQM-A) reported that the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, Patricio Contesse, while being interviewed by a Chilean newspaper, stated that SQM is interested in exploring the north of Chile for metallic mineral resources. The Company has effectively decided to explore its mining properties, and in order to do so, it has developed an exploration campaign that is included in its capex plans for the year 2008.
30-04-2008

SQM reported today that shareholders at the Company’s Annual Shareholders’ Meeting held today approved a number of proposals, including distribution of a final gross dividend of Ch$204.13794 (approximately US$0.44459, based on the observed exchange rate as of April 30, 2008) per share. Shareholders also elected the members of the Board for the next three-year period. All seven of the Board members chosen by series A shareholders were reelected: Wayne R. Brownlee, Hernán Buchi, José María Eyzaguirre, Julio Ponce, Wolf von Appen, Kendrick T. Wallace and Daniel Yarur. Series B shareholders elected a new Board member, Mr. Eduardo Novoa.
30-04-2008

SQM announced today that its series B ADR has begun trading under the new 1:1 ratio of ordinary shares to ADRs.
18-03-2008

SQM announced today that its Board of Directors has agreed to propose a gross final dividend of US$4.4459 per ADR (US$0.44459 per ordinary share) at its 2008 annual shareholders meeting. The Company also announced that its annual shareholders meeting will be held in Santiago, Chile, on April 30, 2008.
18-03-2008

SQM announced today that its Board of Directors has approved a ratio change for its series B ADRs. The Company also announced its intent to voluntarily delist its series A ADRs from the New York Stock Exchange.
03-03-2008

Santiago, Chile, November 15, 2007.- Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile S.A. (SQM) (NYSE: SQM, SQMA; Santiago Stock Exchange: SQM-B, SQM-A) announced today its preliminary evaluation of the effects on the Company’s productive facilities of the earthquake that occurred yesterday in Northern Chile.
15-11-2007

SQM announced today that it filed its 2006 Annual Report on Form 20-F with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on June 29, 2007. The Form 20-F is available on the Company’s Web site, at www.sqm.com.
09-11-2007

The Board of Directors of SQM unanimously agreed, in accordance with the current Dividend Policy, to recommend to the next Annual Shareholders Meeting of SQM to pay as a definitive dividend, 65% of the net profits obtained by SQM during the 2006 business period.
21-03-2007

SQM informed that in session of January 16, 2007, the Board of Directors of Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM) approved the limited review of the Interim Financial Information as of September 30, 2006 and 2005.
14-02-2007

SQM informed that Royal Seed Trading Corp. A.V.V., -subsidiary of Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile S.A. (“SQM”), and with the guaranty of the latter- and the banks ING Bank N.V., Curacao Branch, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria S.A., BNP Paribas and Santander Overseas Bank Inc., have subscribed a Credit Agreement of US$80 million.
28-11-2006

SQM announced today that it has sold its fully-owned Mexican subsidiary, Fertilizantes Olmeca y SQM S.A. de C.V. ("Olmeca"), to Yara International A.S.A. ("Yara"). The sale of SQM's stake in Olmeca involved a payment of USD 4.9 million, which will have a before-tax positive effect of approximately USD 1.1 million.
30-10-2006

We hereby inform you that Soquimich European Holdings B.V. ("SEH") - subsidiary of Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile S.A. ("SQM")- and Yara Italy S.P.A. ("YARA") -subsidiary of Yara International ASA, which forms part of the "controlling group" of SQM- executed in Italy on September 14, 2006, a sales and purchase agreement by which SEH sold to YARA all the rights that SEH had in the Italian society Impronta S.R.L. ("Impronta"), which represented 50% of the total rights of Impronta. The agreement involves a payment of €623,000 paid on cash.
15-09-2006

SQM announced that it has closed today an offering pursuant to Rule 144A and Regulation S of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, of U.S.$200 million aggregate principal amount of its 6.125% Notes due 2016, issued at a discount of 99.746%.
05-04-2006

The Board of Directors of SQM unanimously agreed, in accordance with the current Dividend Policy, to recommend to the next Annual Shareholders Meeting of SQM to pay as a definitive dividend, 65% of the net profits obtained by SQM during the 2005 business period.
29-03-2006

SQM announced today that it intends, subject to market and other customary conditions, to make an offering of up to US$200,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of notes due 2016.
29-03-2006

SQM informed today that it has successfully secured coverage for the senior unsecured UF 3 million bond placed in the Chilean market on January 24th 2006 through a cross currency swap.
31-01-2006

SQM informed today that it has successfully placed in the Chilean market, a 21 years senior unsecured bond at a re-offer yield of 4.18% in UFs (Chilean inflation adjusted currency). This new issuance brings into the company financial resources for approximately USD 100 million to refinance company liabilities and to fund its 2006 capital expenditure program.
24-01-2006

SQM informed today that it has acquired the iodine and iodine derivatives business of the Dutch “DSM Group”.
19-01-2006

SQM and the Dutch Group “DSM” (DSM) are currently negotiating the possible purchase by SQM of all the shares issued by a Chilean and a Dutch subsidiary of DSM (both, DSMSB) involved in the production and distribution of iodine and iodine derivatives.
16-01-2006

SQM informs that it has reached a preliminary agreement with Antofagasta Holdings PLC, in order to subscribe a sale-purchase and royalty payment contract related to SQM's mining properties associated to Antucoya's project.
30-12-2005

SQM inform that has been notified about the ruling of the French Arbitration Association (AFA) about the demand that the French Companies Compagnie du Guano de Poisson Angibaud S.A. and Generale de Nutrition Vegetal SAS had interposed against SQM by the damages of a supposed breach in the distribution agreements of Specialty Plant Nutrition products that both companies mantained in France.
27-07-2005

SQM informed that SQM International and Akzo Nobel’s Chelates and Micronutrients business have entered into a global marketing cooperation within chelated micronutrients, a range of specialty products used worldwide.
26-05-2005

In August 2004, ACS has announced the winner for the first Award for Creative Research and Applications of Iodine Chemistry to be granted at the ACS Awards Ceremony to be held in conjunction with the 229th ACS National Meeting on March 15th, 2005, in San Diego, California.
03-12-2004

SQM informed today that it will implement a series of projects oriented to increase its specialty fertilizers and iodine production capacity.
30-06-2004

SQM is implementing a price increase of ten percent (10%) for all grades of lithium carbonate and of seven percent (7%) for all grades of lithium hydroxide.
14-11-2003

reported today that during the Extraordinary Board Session carried out on October 24, 2003, the members of the Board, with the absence of Wayne Brownlee and José María Eyzaguirre, agreed to authorize SQM management to subscribe the necessary contracts to purchase all the shares of the Chilean company PCS Yumbes S.C.M., affiliate of Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc.
27-10-2003

reported today that during the Board Session carried out on August 26, 2003, the members of the Board agreed to authorize SQM to subscribe an "Option Contract" with Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc.(PCS) that grants SQM the right to purchase all of the shares of the Chilean company PCS Yumbes S.C.M., not later than December 31, 2004.
27-08-2003

SQM informed today it has reached an agreement with its joint venture partner Mineag (PTY) Ltd. to buy its 50 % ownership in Mineag SQM Africa (PTY) Ltd.
10-07-2003

SQM informed today that at the Board Session held on May 13, 2003, the members of the Board unanimously agreed to -i- appoint Mr. Julio Ponce Lerou as Chairman of the Board -ii- appoint Mr. Wayne R. Brownlee as Vice Chairman of the Board and -iii- appoint Messrs. Wayne R. Brownlee, Avi Milstein and José Antonio Silva Bafalluy as members of SQM’s Directors Committee.
14-05-2003

2003 Annual Shareholders Meeting
06-05-2003

SQM informed today that its subsidiary Soquimich Comercial S.A. (SQMC) (Santiago Stock Exchange: Soquicom), acquired yesterday 100% of the shares of Norsk Hydro Chile S.A., subsidiary of the Norwegian corporation Norsk Hydro ASA.
29-04-2003

SQM informed today that the Board of Directors of its subsidiary Soquimich Comercial S.A. (SQMC) (Santiago Stock Exchange: Soquicom), approved the acquisition of 100% of the shares of Norsk Hydro Chile S.A., subsidiary of the Norwegian corporation Norsk Hydro ASA.
07-03-2003

SQM informed today that it signed a joint venture agreement with Hydro Agri and two Egyptian entrepreneurs with the intention to produce and market liquid fertilizers in Egypt through a new jointly owned company.
18-02-2003

SQM informed today that on December 26 successfully renewed US$60 million of a syndicated loan that had as a due date February 20, 2003.
30-12-2002

SQM informs that effective June 10, the Company's Commercial Area features a new organizational structure.
13-06-2002

SQM informs that on the Board Meeting held on May 14, 2002, the members of the Board unanimously agreed to -i- appoint Mr. Julio Ponce Lerou as Chairman of the Board -ii- appoint Mr. Wayne R. Brownlee as Vice Chairman of the Board and -iii- appoint Messrs. Roberto Izquierdo Menéndez, Avi Milstein and José Antonio Silva Bafalluy as members of SQM's Directors Committee.
15-05-2002

SQM informs that on the Annual General Shareholders Meeting carried out today, the shareholders approved, among other issues, to distribute a definitive dividend of 370.2003 chilean pesos per ADR, which will be paid on May 8, 2002.
26-04-2002

SQM informs that on this day it has filed an essential issue before the Securities and Insurance Superintendence.
20-03-2002