Nitrogen

If a resolution to negotiations between Teamster’s Canada Rail Conference and Canadian Pacific Railways is not reached promptly a strike is set for 16 March at midnight.

The country's agriculture ministry said the ban would help "to maintain balance in the domestic market" and applied to nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and complex fertilizers.

The department will make available US$250 million through a new grant programme this summer to support independent, innovative and sustainable American fertilizer production to supply American farmers.

Brazil's Agriculture Minister Tereza Cristina Dias has said that Brazil has secured the support of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay for a proposal excluding fertilizer products that will be submitted to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization.

Yara has stopped all sourcing from suppliers linked to Russian sanctioned entities and persons, in response to new EU sanctions imposed on 9 March.

Hungarian nitrogen fertilizer producer Nitrogénmuvek has temporarily halted ammonia production as a result of high natural gas prices.

Borealis will now consider various options regarding the future of its nitrogen business.

The two plants have a combined annual capacity of 1 million t of ammonia and 0.9 million t of urea.

Petrobras has not called off or altered talks to sell an unfinished fertilizer plant to Russian group Acron even as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has triggered Western sanctions.

Interim Chief Executive Ken Seitz said Nutrien will boost potash production if it sees sustained supply problems in Russia and Belarus.

The NPK plant is being built within FACT's existing manufacturing facility of Cochin Division (CD) at Ambalam Edu in the Ernakulam district in the state of Kerala.

TOAZ has shut down operation of 4 ammonia units and put 3 ammonia units into a reduced load mode.

Based on investigations to date, Incitec Pivot Ltd. expects it will take between 6 and 8 weeks to complete the repairs and restart the plant.

As part of an initiative at the Herøya facility to replace the current hydrogen production process through liquefied fossil gas with green hydrogen based on renewable energy, Casale has committed its own technology, including the design of brand-new ammonia converter internals.

Cooperation between the companies will aim to bring Industry 4.0 innovations into the nitrogen fertilizer industry and, in particular, the urea process.