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Specialty Plant NutritionIodineLithiumIndustrial ChemicalsPotassium
Our Vision

Over the next ten years, SQM anticipates further consolidating its position as the undisputed world leader and lowest-cost producer in its five core businesses, Specialty Plant Nutrition, Iodine, Lithium, Industial Chemicals and Potasium, thanks to its unmatched access to high-quality natural resources, installed capacity and ability to react quickly to sudden changes in market conditions. At the same time, SQM's management will continue to be driven by a well-defined set of values that reflect the Company's high ethical standards, its fair treatment of all of its constituencies – shareholders, employees, customers and suppliers –, its strong sense of accountability to the community and its commitment to environmental awareness.

 
Our Values

Values are the fundamental pillars that support all SQM stands for. They are the basis for our personnel's behaviour and they are our starting point to approach the market and our target groups. It reflects what the world can expect from SQM and what we can expect from ourselves.

Our values are translate into important benefits: For our shareholders they are synonymous of return on investment and productivity; for our customers they mean innovation, closeness, commitment and quality; and for the community the company stands for sustained development, that cares about the environment, the security of the labour force and its social responsibility.

 
The following values have forged SQM's corporate identity:
         
  Respect   We value the individual qualities and output capacities of every person we work with, which enables us to build confidence driven relationships.  
  Transparency   Openness and closeness are the key words in our business language and our major concern is to be consequent in what we proclaim.  
  Participation/Collaboration   We promote and appreciate that people come forward with ideas, express their opinions and share their experiences, in order to contribute to our search for creative and innovative solutions.  
  Improvement/Self-criticism   We are driven to constantly evaluating our behaviour and to confront energetically the obstacles and difficulties that may arise. We know from experience that this is the best way to search for new possibilities and solutions.  
  Innovation   We approach our work and our challenges in a creative, different and flexible way, constantly looking for better solutions and better ways to handle things.  
  Austerity   We seek to deliver excellent results at the lowest cost; we nourish our resources and we strive to optimise them to obtain even better results.  
  Responsability   We always keep our word to our promises, and always answer for our deeds.  
  Flexibility   We easily adapt to different situations and we have an open mind towards changes and propositions from third parties with the will to handle them in the best possible way.