ABOUT SQM
Today SQM is the worldwide leader in its three main business
areas: Specialty Plant Nutrition, Iodine and Lithium. The company has commercial
offices in more than 20 countries, which enables SQM to offer its business formulae
to customers in 110 countries throughout Europe, America, Asia and Oceania.
To reach that worldwide leadership, many important investments have been made. Not
just to increase the production capacity, but also to train the personnel, to fund
R&D, to improve technology and to finance all kinds of actions focused upon
acquiring a better understanding of the profound needs of the customers.
Thus, today SQM not just offers top quality products and services but pursues a
much more ambitious goal: the success of its customers throughout the world. On
top of being an excellent supplier, SQM has become a business ally in the search
of better solutions for its customers.
However, a process of almost four decades preceded the point where the company consolidated
its leadership and carried across its mission to its customers. During that time
SQM reinvented itself more than once in order to meet the high efficiency levels
imposed by the changing global markets, while at the same time meeting the demanding
response levels from their customers worldwide. But time did not pass in vain.
SQM a genuine success story SQM was founded in 1968 to reorganize the Chilean nitrate
industry. In the course of the first phase the ownership was shared between the
Chilean State and the Compañía Nitratera Anglo Lautaro S.A. During the second phase
the industry was nationalised and was thus fully owned by the Chilean State. Finally
in 1983 the process of privatisation started and was successfully completed in 1988.
Today SQM invests in its customers: in understanding their most profound needs and
offering them the best business formulae to guarantee their growth.
Contact Information
- Address: Head Office: El Trovador 4285, Las Condes, Santiago de Chile. Phone
(56 2) 425 2000 Fax: (56 2) 425 2060
- Website: www.sqm.com