Fertilizer project news

African Export-Import Bank and Africa Finance Corp. will act as the mandated lead arrangers.

IFFCO, the Indian fertilizer producer and marketer, has signed off the official acceptance certificate of a revamping project involving 13 fertilizer plants.

The urea ammonium sulphate facility at the Novomoskovskiy Azot plant is projected to reach a final production capacity of 600 tpd.

The project was completed last month at the Acron Group site in Veliky Novgorod, Russia.

K+S has been able to secure production through continuous optimisation of wastewater management as well as the use of existing possibilities for off-site disposal.

The granulation plant is to be built in Velikiy Novgorod in Russia.

Once the project is approved, its estimated capital cost is CAN$4.3 billion.

The company believes there is potential to increase the sylvinite deposits at Sintoukola to between 1.5 and 1.9 billion t.

With granted mining leases in place, the Lake Wells sulphate of potash project in Western Australia is targeting the production of 150 000 tpy through an initial Stage-1 development, rising to 300 000 tpy on development of Stage-2.

Emmerson Plc, the Moroccan-focused potash development company, has released a summary of the results of its recently completed Scoping Study for the company’s 100% owned Khemisset Potash Project in northern Morocco.