Fertilizer project news

Advanced stage sulphate of potash exploration and development company Reward Minerals has received notification from the Department of Water and Environmental Regulation of Western Australia (EPA Services Division) that the company’s Lake Disappointment project environmental review document has been approved for release for public review.

In December, UCC Shchekinoazot (Tula region, Russia) successfully completed a test run of their newly erected methanol and ammonia co-production unit based on Haldor Topsoe’s IMAP Methanol+™ process.

The Lower Saxony State Authority for Mining, Energy, and Geology has issued the permit for a possible resumption of the potash production at the Siegfried-Giesen site (district of Hildesheim).

Kore Potash plc, the potash development company has announced the outcomes of the Kola Potash Project Definitive Feasibility Study, which was undertaken by a consortium of French engineering companies during 2017 and 2018.

OCP S.A, a leading phosphate soil and plant nutrition company, and Fertinagro Biotech S.L., a Spanish company which manufactures and supplies a wide range of specialised plant nutrition solutions, have established a Joint Venture company for the production of granular high analysis NPK as well as fertilizers enhanced with urease inhibitors, bio-stimulants, and trace elements (micronutrients), to address the international market.

Casale and Borsodchem, a subsidiary of Wahua Chemical Group (China), have signed a contract for the supply of a new 660 tpd, nitric acid plant at the Kazincbarcika factory in Hungary.

PJSC KuibyshevAzot is planning to put into operation a new granulated ammonium nitrate plant before the end of 2020.

Acron Group, one of the leading mineral fertilizer producers in Russia and globally, has commissioned a 600 ktpy blended fertilizer unit at its site in Veliky Novgorod.

Kalium Lakes Limited is pleased to advise that it has received approval in accordance with Part 9 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 from the Commonwealth Department of the Environment and Energy, for its Beyondie Sulphate Of Potash Project.

Nizhnekamskneftekhim and NIIK have signed the contract for the development of a new methanol unit with a capacity of 500 000 tpy.