Case Study
SQM Salar Evaporation Ponds
This geomembrane project can be seen from Orbiting Space Shuttle! The Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile S.A. (SQM) is one of the world’s largest producers of specialty fertilizers, iodine, lithium, and other industrial chemicals. In particular, the company notably extracts natural resources through evaporation and crystallization of naturally occurring brine solutions at its Atacama Desert Salar Plant, developing them into products such a