Sociedad Quimica y Minera
Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile, established in 1968, is a global chemical and mining company headquartered in Chile. It operates through five business lines: Specialty Plant Nutrition, Iodine and derivatives, Lithium and derivatives, Industrial Chemicals, and Potassium. SQM extracts these materials primarily from its high-quality salt brine deposits and caliche ore, serving diverse industries such as agriculture, pharmaceuticals, energy storage systems, and solar power. Notably, the company is expanding its lithium refining assets in China and developing a hard rock lithium project in Australia to meet growing global demand for electric vehicle batteries.
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