Special reports

Kelvion's shareholder committee had announced that Marcus Mayer will join Kelvion as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Managing Director of Kelvion Holding GmbH effective as of January 1, 2019.

Casale and Orica have agreed a deal for the acquisition, by Casale, of Orica’s complete process and know-how to produce Low Density Ammonium Nitrate (LDAN).

Nutrien Ltd. has announced that it has completed the sale of its minority equity investment in Arab Potash Company to SDIC Mining Investment Co. Ltd. for gross proceeds of US$502 million.

The conference call will take place on 30 October at 7:30 am Central Time (8:30 am Eastern Time).

Argus Media, a fertilizer market data and business intelligence company, has acquired Integer Research.

In September 2017, BASF and Solvay agreed that BASF would acquire Solvay’s polyamide business subject to approval of the relevant merger control authorities.

Namhae Chemical, a large South Korean fertilizer producer, has issued a tender 2019 to buy its yearly urea requirement.

Wally Schaefer, Jorvic Vital and Melissa Callejo, Nalco Water, USA, explain the importance of heat exchanger monitoring data in enabling the ammonia plants of the future.

Wally Schaefer, Jorvic Vital and Melissa Callejo, Nalco Water, USA, explain the importance of heat exchanger monitoring data in enabling the ammonia plants of the future.

K+S invited international experts and forward thinkers, political and scientific stakeholders, NGOs, as well as experts in development cooperation and representatives of startup companies to the third Future Food Forum in Berlin.

Iran and India will continue to lead the global ammonia market capacity growth, which is poised to increase from 241.9 million tpy in 2017 to 286.4 million tpy in 2026, says data and analytics company GlobalData.

AUMUND Fördertechnik GmbH appointed Dr.-Ing. Pietro de Michieli as its new Managing Director, to focus on equipment sales, spare parts, after sales service, and PREMAS® 4.0, at the AUMUND headquarters in Rheinberg, Germany.

ICIS reports that "the US tariffs against China are not likely to have any major impact on the fertilizers market, even though the final list includes nearly all the crop nutrients produced in China".

ExxonMobil Catalysts and Licensing LLC and BASF Corporation are conducting a full scale commercial demonstration of a new gas treating solvent at Imperial Oil’s Sarnia Refinery.

Acron Group, a leading mineral fertiliser producer in Russia and globally, has signed fertiliser supply agreements with Bryansk and Novgorod regional departments of agriculture for the next year at the Golden Autumn agro-industry trade show. Under these agreements, the Group will supply over 100 000 t of ammonium nitrate and NPK.