Company Profile of SQM

Company Overview

SQM has grown substantially since its beginnings as a nitrate company that primarily produced and sold fertilizers. For over 40 years, SQM has expanded by broadening its business and product offering, always visionary in its growth from its inception in 1968.

One of SQM’s main goals has always been to generate value for its shareholders using a multidisciplinary strategy: to focus the company’s growth on areas where it has sustainable competitive advantages; to maintain a conservative and sound financial position; to optimize production processes in order to maximize efficiency and be a low-cost producer; and to strive to develop new products, markets and applications.

SQM is committed to maintaining and strengthening its global leadership in its key markets. Today, SQM is an integrated producer of specialty fertilizers and chemicals that enjoys important competitive advantages, that have afforded it significant growth over the past few years.

Currently, SQM has a global presence in a variety of industries through its 5 business lines: Specialty Plant Nutrition; Iodine and Derivatives; Lithium and Derivatives; Industrial Chemicals(potassium nitrate, sodium nitrate, potassium chloride, etc.)  and Potassium. Presently, SQM is the world’s largest producer in the niche markets of Specialty Plant Nutrition, Iodine and Derivatives and Lithium and Derivatives.