Sustainability

Conservation of the high Andean flamingo

Since 1999, Quiborax has implemented one of the oldest high-altitude ecological monitoring programs in Chile in the Salar de Surire. This program, carried out in partnership with CONAF (National Forestry Corporation, an entity dependent on the Ministry of Agriculture whose main task is to administer Chile's forestry policy and promote the development of the sector), allows us to know the composition, status and abundance of this ecosystem, including lagoons, springs, hot springs, flora and fauna and with special emphasis on the population of the three species of flamingos that inhabit the salar. Thanks to this permanent and systematic research, the company has been able to closely study the species in the area and thus ensure their normal development.

Quiborax is also part of the High Andean Flamingo Conservation Plan (made up of Chile, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina), the Simultaneous Census of Flamingos, the Lauca Biosphere Reserve Commission and the advisory councils for the protection of the Monument Salar de Surire National Reserve and Las Vicuñas National Reserve, all under the direction of CONAF (National Forestry Corporation).

Committed to renewable energies

Since 2013 and through a pioneering and strategic alliance with Engie, Quiborax has had a non-conventional renewable energy generation plant at its facilities that allows 22% of the supply needed for its Chemical Plant to come from solar energy from the El Águila photovoltaic park. With a joint investment of US $7 million, the energy generated in this plant, which has more than eight thousand photovoltaic panels, is equivalent to reducing CO2 emissions by 4,000 tons per year or the equivalent of the emissions of approximately 1,700 cars per year.