Materials handling

Acron Group is the first company in Russia to use 19-6978-01 hopper cars, manufactured by United Wagon Company, to ship its products.

PhosAgro CEO, Andrey Guryev, has recently visited the Ultramar Terminal being built at the port of Ust-Luga for the transhipment of mineral fertilizers.

AUMUND Ltda, Brazil, has received an order from Metso to supply four bucket elevators for a plant being built by the JBS Group in Guiaçara in the State of São Paulo.

Rebecca Long Pyper, Dome Technology, USA, examines how storing fertilizer in domes can protect product in a number of ways.

Martin Engineering explains why recognising the hazards is a key step toward preventing conveyor-related injuries.

Sandvik adds a new cold finishing tube manufacturing line at its Mehsana Mill, in Gujarat, western India. 

An estimated 7% of the US fatalities recorded by MSHA between 1995 and 2011 occurred in a confined space. To reduce that number, conveyor operators are wise to understand exactly how a confined space is defined, and to consider what they can do to prevent serious injuries.

Driven by customer input from a number of different industries, the new VFD system reduces the need to purchase or rent different models to match the machines’ output to specific project requirements.

RHEWUM screens have been chosen for a new plant for the production of urea fertilizers.

During the St Petersburg International Economic Forum, Acron and Ultramar signed a transshipment agreement and warehouse leases in Ust-Luga port.

EuroChem Group AG has opened a new ammonia production plant, EuroChem Northwest, in Kingisepp, Russia. The plant has the largest single-train production capacity in Europe, at 1 million tpy.

Argus Media is reporting that weak ammonia prices have raised the upgrading margins on urea production to their highest since 2012.

The DuPont board formally approved the US$2 billion share buyback programme and the DuPont pro forma financial information has been filed with additional segment level pro forma information anticipated in the near future.

CF Industries Holdings, Inc. has announced that Dennis Kelleher, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, has informed the company he will retire from CF effective 1 September 2019.

DuPont de Nemours, Inc. has announced its debut as an independent company following the successful separation of its Agriculture Division through the spin-off of Corteva, Inc.