THE PRODUCTS

BORN IN THE CHILEAN DESERT

SQM owns natural resources in the desert that are unique in the world, which allows the company to have an innovative business model. From the depths of the driest desert in the world SQM pumps up the brines and mines the caliche, the raw materials for manufacturing the products that make up the 5 lines of SQM business.

The caliche and the brines are the raw materials for all SQM production. The desert is the common factor.

Recreation of the caliche

heap leaching (Tente en
el Aire Mine).

Potassium is one of the three main elements that all plants need to grow and flourish, so it cannot be replaced.

Recreation of the solar

evaporation ponds

(Atacama salt flats).

POTASSIUM

Potassium is one of the three main elements that all plants need to grow and flourish, so it cannot be replaced.

SQM produces the

three main sources

of potassium.

SPECIALITY PLANT NUTRIENTS

SQM produces complete nutritional solutions for modern high-tech agriculture that improves crop yield and quality.

IODINE AND DERIVATIVES

Iodine is a non-metallic chemical element from the halogen family. In its natural state it is solid, dark purple in color, and it has a variety of uses in daily life.

INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS

The different industrial chemicals produced are used in glass manufacturing, ceramic glazes, glass enamels, metal treatment and solar salts.

Solar energy production plants use a system of storing molten salts that provide heat to the turbines

during the night, replacing solar energy and allowing electricity to be produced 24 hours of the day.

LITHIUM AND ITS DERIVATIVES

Lithium is the lightest metallic element and has a high electrochemical potential. It is used in manufacturing cathodes of high-power lithium ion batteries with a long life-span and low memory effect.

THE PRODUCTS

BORN IN THE CHILEAN DESERT

SQM owns natural resources in the desert that are unique in the world, which allows the company to have an innovative business model. From the depths of the driest desert in the world SQM pumps up the brines and mines the caliche, the raw materials for manufacturing the products that make up the 5 lines of SQM business.

POTASSIUM

Potassium is one of the three main elements that all plants need to grow and flourish, so it cannot be replaced.

SQM produces the three main sources of potassium.

SPECIALITY PLANT NUTRIENTS

SQM produces complete nutritional solutions for modern high-tech agriculture that improves crop yield and quality.

IODINE AND DERIVATIVES

Iodine is a non-metallic chemical element from the

halogen family. In its natural state it is solid, dark

purple in color, and it has a variety of uses in daily life.

INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS

The different industrial chemicals produced

are used in glass manufacturing, ceramic glazes,

glass enamels, metal treatment and solar salts.

Solar energy production plants use a system of storing molten salts that provide heat to the turbines during the night, replacing solar energy and allowing electricity to

be produced 24 hours of the day.

LITHIUM AND ITS DERIVATIVES

Lithium is the lightest metallic element and has

a high electrochemical potential. It is used in

manufacturing cathodes of high-power lithium ion

batteries with a long life-span and low memory effect.