Company: SQM
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0000909037-25-000020
Chunk: 48

Company: CHEMICAL & MINING CO OF CHILE INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-24
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 4
Chunk 48
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 human rights, care for the environment, form close and trusting relationships with our neighboring communities and create value. Within these communities, we support projects and activities with a focus on education, business development, and protection of the environment and historical heritage. We create value for our clients through established commercial models and the production and development of differentiated products that respond to their industry and market specific needs, constantly creating and providing a sustainable improvement in the quality of life. We will continue to create value for all of our stakeholders through responsible management of natural resources, sustainable expansion projects and improvement of our existing operations, with a focus on minimizing our environmental impacts by reducing our carbon, energy and water footprints and working together with our shareholders, employees, customers, suppliers and communities.
Specialty Plant Nutrition
Our strategy in our specialty plant nutrition business offers smart and sustainable nutritional solutions to our customers. To that end, we seek to: (i) leverage the advantages of our specialty products over commodity-type fertilizers applied to high-value crops; (ii) selectively expand our business by increasing our sales of higher margin specialty plant nutrients based on natural potassium and nitrates, particularly soluble potassium nitrate and specialty blends; (iii) seek investment opportunities in complementary businesses to develop new products and business models to add value to our customers; (iv) develop new specialty nutrient blends produced in our blending plants that are strategically located in or near our core
markets to meet specific customer needs; (v) focus primarily on markets where we can sell our plant nutrients in soluble applications to establish a leadership position; (vi) further develop our global distribution and marketing system directly and through strategic alliances; (vii) supply a product with consistent quality in accordance with our customers' specific requirements. (viii) invest in research and technology to improve our process yields, reduce our production costs and maximize productivity; and (ix) maintain production flexibility to capture emerging market opportunities.
Iodine and its Derivatives
Our strategy in our iodine business is to: (i) foster demand growth and promote new uses for iodine; (ii) supply a product with consistent quality in accordance with our customers' requirements; (iii) provide excellent service to our customers through a strong distribution network; (iv) build long-term relationships with our customers; (v) invest in research and technology to increase recovery yields, lower production costs and maintain high productivity; (vi) successfully execute our investment plan to increase production capacity and ensure flexibility; and (vii) participate in iodine recycling projects through the Aj