Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile SA
SQM
Company Profile
Business description
Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile is a Chilean commodities producer with significant operations in lithium (primarily used in batteries for electric vehicles and energy storage systems), specialty and standard potassium fertilizers, iodine (primarily used in X-ray contrast media), and solar salts. The company extracts these materials through its high-quality salt brine deposits and caliche ore. SQM is developing a hard rock lithium project in Australia and expanding its lithium refining assets in China.
Contact
El Trovador 4285, 6th Floor
Las Condes
Santiago
CHLT: +56 224252000
Sector
Basic Materials
Stock type
Cyclical
Industry
Specialty Chemicals
Fiscal Year End
31 December 2024
Employees
8,128
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