- Headquarters
- Santiago, Chile · Latin America
- Value chain
- Chemicals & gases(Inputs)
- What that means
- Supplies chemistry: speciality and process chemicals, coatings and resins, industrial and speciality gases, energetics, fuels, reagents and enzymes.
- Founded
- 1968
- Ownership
- Listed
- Listing
- NYSE:SQM on Google Finance
- Website
- sqm.com
- Relevance
- Moderate at its strongest, in Batteries & Energy Storage
Santiago, ChileIn 2 capabilities
Each capability the company is listed in, most relevant first: how experts in the field see its global relevance there, why it is listed and the source.
- Batteries & Energy StorageModerate
Energy Technologies · Equipment & materials · listed #21 of 50
One of the two largest lithium producers in the world (Salar de Atacama), supplying battery-grade lithium carbonate and hydroxide to cathode and cell makers.
Relevance: Top lithium producer; key upstream input, not cell technology.
Advanced Materials & Manufacturing · Manufacture · listed #43 of 50
One of the largest lithium chemical processors, refining Atacama brine into battery-grade lithium carbonate and hydroxide, and a major maker of specialty nitrates and iodine.
Relevance: Major lithium chemicals processor