In addition, visits to Coya Sur and the El Carmen chemical plant will be available so that exhibitors and visitors can learn about their operational challenges on site.
One of the strategic partners of EXPONOR 2024 is SQM, a Chilean mining company from the north of Chile that delivers solutions for human development through its five business lines: Specialty Plant Nutrition, Iodine and derivatives, Lithium and derivatives, Potassium and Solar Salts. It plays a leading role worldwide in all of them, characterized by sustainable mining.
“We are very happy to again be a strategic partner of EXPONOR 2024, which is the most important mining exhibition in the country and the region. We will be participating with a stand, where we will have a very complete display so as to be able to share SQM's work with all of you, showing you all our industrial activities", said Pablo Altimiras, General Manager of SQM Iodine Plant Nutrition.
The company invites suppliers to visit SQM at EXPONOR 2024. It will be located at stand no. 21 in Outdoor Zone B, and is one of the largest mining business centres in the exhibition, with 120m22.
“We look forward to welcoming colleagues, students, professionals, suppliers, everyone, so we can talk about what we do and tell them what the company is up to today. We are also going to participate in the technical visits and, together with the Antofagasta Industrial Association, we are organizing visits to our own worksites in the Antofagasta Region, which is very interesting. I invite you to take the opportunity to visit us and join EXPONOR 2024, because it is a tremendous opportunity not only to do business, but it is also a showcase for Chile to the world", Altimiras concluded.
Visit to its worksites: Coya Sur and Salar del Carmen
SQM will have a significant presence at the twentieth edition of EXPONOR, in which it will participate in seminars, networking, technical visits, in addition to its stand as a business centre, where executives and professionals from the supply and purchasing areas will be available to evaluate business possibilities with potential suppliers.
“For SQM, EXPONOR is a very significant and important showcase of our work, in all areas, in the Antofagasta Region. EXPONOR's national and international exposure allows us to develop deeper work, connect, and be able to develop business opportunities and projects that lie ahead", said Pablo Pisani, SQM Corporate Affairs Manager, Nitrates Iodine.
On Wednesday, June 5, it will offer three visits to its worksites, one to Coya Sur, focused on solar salts and sodium and potassium nitrate, and two to Salar del Carmen, which produces lithium carbonate and hydroxide. These have a duration of two and a half hours, and have limited places; due to the high demand and shortage of places currently available for Coya Sur, the alternative of the Salar del Carmen Plant was opened this week, which still has places open.
For SQM, "EXPONOR is also a very important opportunity to show what we are and what we do; one of the fundamental elements for us is female participation, achieving over 20%, but we also have challenges to continue to grow. We are also succeeding with labour inclusion issues, and sustainability in general. Today, as we establish ourselves in the territories in a sustainable and harmonious way, this is an opportunity that EXPONOR allows us to go into more depth on", Pisani said.
EXPONOR 2024 -june 3 – 6- has the support of its strategic partners Albemarle, Antofagasta Minerals, Capstone Copper, CODELCO, Escondida | BHP, GLENCORE, Minera El Abra, Pampa Norte | BHP, Pan American Silver, Sierra Gorda SCM and SQM, together with the sponsorship of APRIMIN, Consejo Minero, Generadoras de Chile, InvestChile, the Ministries of Economy, Mining and Energy, the Regional Government, ProChile, SOFOFA and SONAM, and its official media are Minería Chilena, Reporte Minero, El Mercurio de Antofagasta and Timeline. Register your visit at: visitatecnica@exponor.cl.
EXPONOR 2024... Solutions for a sustainable industry.
Antofagasta, April 26, 2024.
