Special reports

The Fertilizer Institute has released its 2017 State of the Fertilizer Industry report.

Don Griep, Ludman Industries, USA, looks at the importance of finding a roll crusher that delivers consistent on-size product.

Cole Martin, BMI Research, UK, presents an overview of the European fertilizer landscape in the coming years.

Miles Buckhurst, Jotun, Norway, looks at the issue of corrosion under insulation in the fertilizer industry.

Gordon Cope, World Fertilizer contributing editor, asks if relief is finally on the way for a stagnating fertilizer industry.

Lynn Wang, Integer, China, explains how supply-side structural reform will promote capacity upgrades in the Chinese fertilizer industry.

The concept called NAMAX comes along with substantial improvements in terms of efficiency and flexibility, being valid for both new plants and revamps of existing ones.

BEUMER Group looks at the importance of optimising packaging lines in the fertilizer industry.

Turbomachinery & Pump Symposia, TPS, has been rescheduled to 12 – 14 December 2017.

G. Manenti, V. Pescuma and S. Sarti, Alfa Laval Olmi SpA, Italy, provide an overview of the delivery schedule for a key piece of heat transfer equipment, process gas boiler packages, to fertilizer plants.

Growth in fertilizer consumption will lag far behind supply growth over the next five years, according to CRU.

Oliver Henkes and Jörg Eckert, Heraeus Chemicals, Germany, detail highly efficient catalysts that reduce nitrous oxide emissions from nitric acid production by 95%.

Laura Cross and Benjamin Treadwell, Integer Research, UK, report on how the Middle East and North Africa region’s position as one of the most competitive nitrogen producers is changing.

Richard Ewing and Deepika Thapliyal, ICIS, UK, analyse natural gas as an increasingly powerful resource for fertilizer manufacturing.

With potash playing a key role in meeting agriculture’s needs with 95% of it being used as fertilizer, World Fertilizer’s Assistant Editor Harleigh Hobbs spoke to Punkaj Gupta, Joint Managing Director & Group Chief Executive of Essel Group ME, about the company, its flagship potash project and the future of the industry.