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Natural resources are a key element for SQM, because they allow it to offer the
best products and services to its clients. This is why it is constantly searching
for the best processes, the most advanced technologies and the most innovative solutions,
aimed at maximizing its available resources, while conducting a sustainable yet
efficient exploitation.
SQM understands that growth is only possible when progressing side by side with
its workers and the communities surrounding its plants. SQM understands that development
is only possible having environmental care has a priority, since this is where its
resources come from. Therefore, it expects to balance all these crucial elements
to move forward with them, in harmony, into the future.
The Atacama Salt Desert, located between the first and second region of Chile, is
the huge scenario where its nine productive plants are located. There, SQM has exclusive
access to natural reserves of unmatchable extent and quality: the biggest iodine
and nitrate natural reserves in the world and the highest lithium and potassium
concentrations currently recorded.
SQM deposits are unparalleled in the world. There, from its
caliche and salar brines reserves, the company
obtains the products on which its leadership formulas are based, one of the values
supporting its leadership in its three main lines of business: specialty plant nutrition,
iodine, and lithium.
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