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We look ahead at fertilizer industry prospects for the next 12 months, including supply and demand growth, and explore the key agricultural, macroeconomic and geopolitical drivers likely to shape the market during 2020.Abstract
Medium-term prospects for the world fertilizer market remain limited. Insipid demand growth of around one percent year-on-year is expected over the next five years. This partly reflects the steady decline in the growth rate of world agriculture. Improvements in nutrient use efficiency and more nutrient recycling are also expected to depress primary fertilizer demand1. Keywords: 2020, Market, Outlook, Fertilizer, Fertilizers, Nutrients, Demand, Growth, Drivers, Trade, Supply, Capacity, Sales, Economics, Agricultural, Agriculture, Farming, Food, Commodities, Oil, Crops, Prices, International Monetary Fund, IMF, Rabobank, FAO, International Fertilizer Association, IFA, Nutrien, Cereals, Oilseeds, Coffee, Wheat, Sugar, Palm oil, Soybeans, Crops, Prices, Affordability, Ammonia, Urea, Potash, Phosphate, India, China, US, United States, Brazil, Russia, Canada, Indonesia, MalaysiaSummary
Leading nitrogen and phosphate producers, including ICL, OCP and Yara, have all launched major sustainable fertilizer production projects. The aim is to incorporate recovered nutrients or low-carbon feedstocks into their manufacturing processes.Abstract
The last 18 months has been a breakthrough period for fertilizer industry sustainability. A number of major fertilizer producers, in tandem with leading technology providers, have committed themselves to incorporating low-carbon feedstocks and/or recovered nutrients into their manufacturing processes. Keywords: Global stewardship, Sustainability, Fertilizer, Fertilizers, Production, Manufacturing, Low carbon, Energy, Greenhouse gas emissions, GHG, Green, Hydrogen, Water, Electrolysis, Ammonia, Circular economy, Nutrient, Phosphate, Phosphorus, Recovery, Recycling, Renewables, Crystal Green, Solar, Wind, Power, Electricity, Ostara, Veolia, Nel Hydrogen, Engie, Casale, Haldor Topsoe, thyssenkrupp, tkIS, Proton Ventures, Fraunhofer, Novaphos, JDCPhosphate, Improved hard process, IHP, Fertilizers Europe, Cefic, Yara, OCP, ICL, Plibara, PorsgrunnSummary
Two EU projects are developing and bringing to market a new generation of fertilizers derived from bio-wastes, as Fertiberia's Maria Cinta Cazador Ruiz explains.Abstract
Bio-waste streams are a potentially valuable resource – one that is under-utilised at present. Turning currently discarded bio-wastes into products with value – so called valorisation – has obvious attractions. Keywords: Global stewardship, Circular economy, Fertiberia, EU, Project, Horizon programme, NewFert, B-Ferst, Waste, Bio-wastes, Biowastes, Wastewaters, Phosphorus, Nitrogen, Phosphate, Fertilizers, NPK, Production, Manufacturing, Process, Nutrient, Recovery, RecyclingSummary
Antonio Sancho, Incro's managing director, gives a personal view on the circular economy and shares his experience of manufacturing high-quality liquid fertilizers from food industry wastewater.Abstract
That was then… Only a decade ago, this article would have been highly theoretical and, lacking a receptive audience, have probably gone largely ignored. Keywords: Global stewardship, Circular economy, Nutrient, Recovery, Recycling, Phosphorus, Incro, Fertiberia, Agralia, Spain, Tudela, EU, Vegetable oil, Waste, Project, Oleofat, Bio-wastes, Biowastes, Wastewaters, Liquid, Fertilizers, Production, Manufacturing, Process, Mechanical vapour compression, MVC, Concentrate, DistillateSummary
Leading EU phosphate and NPK fertilizer producers are profiled, including EuroChem, Fertiberia, Grupa Azoty, ICL, Prayon and Yara.Abstract
Yara’s production might Yara International is Europe’s leading phosphate rock and NPK producer. The company’s Siilinjärvi mine in Finland – the EU’s only phosphate mine – produces around one million tonnes of phosphate rock concentrate and 300,000 tonnes of phosphoric acid annually. Keywords: Phosphate, Industry, Report, ICL, Fertiberia, Advance, Sulfactive, Yara, Prayon, Hortipray, EuroChem, Lifosa, Grupa Azoty, Polifoska, Polidap, Europe, EU, Belgium, Engis, Puurs, Antwerp, Spain, Netherlands, Amsterdam, Lithuania, Kedainiai, Poland, Finland, Siilinjärvi, Uusikaupunki, Norway, Glomfjord, Porsgrunn, France, Montoir, Les Roches de Condrieu, Italy, Ravenna, Germany, Ludwigshafen, Phosphates, Fertilizers, MAP, Monoammonium phosphate, DAP, Diammonium phosphate, NPK, Manufacturing, Production, Feed, Water-solubleSummary
James Byrd of JESA Technologies (Worley, formerly Jacobs), Florida, looks at upcoming innovations in di-hydrate (DH) phosphoric acid plants for the 2020s.Abstract
Technological innovation, by introducing improvements to processes or products, offers new efficient ways of achieving the same or more ambitious production goals. In mature industries, innovations generally serve to bring down the unit cost of products. In a situation where small incremental improvements can cumulatively deliver large returns, it is not surprising that innovations are perpetually under study. Keywords: JESA, Technologies, Worley, Jacobs, Phos, Acid, Process, Innovation, Technology, Phosphoric, Merchant Grade, MGA, Plant, Production, Manufacturing, Dihydrate, Di-hydrate, DH, 2020s,Summary
The innovative ChemBe process from EcoPhos merges beneficiation with chemical processing to generate high-quality phosphoric acid and dicalcium phosphate products. Mohamed Takhim, the CEO and founder of EcoPhos, describes how the ChemBe process is being implemented at the Evergrow project in Egypt.Abstract
Conventional phosphate production The production of phosphates is traditionally based on two distinct and separate processes: beneficiation and chemical processing. Keywords: Phos, Acid, Process, Innovation, Technology, Phosphoric, Dicalcium phosphate, DCP, Merchant Grade, MGA, Plant, Production, Manufacturing, EcoPhos, Technophos, Evergrow, Egypt, Project, ChemBe, Chemical, BeneficiationSummary
Fertilizer International presents a round-up of phosphate rock, phosphoric acid and phosphate fertilizer projects.Abstract
Keywords: Phosphates, Project listing, Projects, Phosphate fertilizers, Finished phosphates, Phosphoric acid, Phosphate rockSummary
Andy Hemphill, senior editor for potash at ICIS Fertilizers, takes a deep dive into the potash market. Potash producers are praying that tight capacity control and resurgent demand will curb the current bearish price trend.Abstract
After a rocky second-half in 2019, the global potash industry has limped into 2020 hoping that tighter production control – and the potential for resurgent demand – could spur trade and even, perhaps, a price recovery. keywords: Potash, Market, Report, Producers, Supply, Exports, Imports, Demand, Prices, Pricing, Muriate of potash, MOP, Sulphate of potash, SOP, Uralkali, BPC, K+S, Nutrien, SQM, EuroChem, Arab Potash Company, APC, ICL, Belarusian Potash Company, BPC, Salt Lake Potash, Kalium Lakes, Europe, Israel, Russia, Belarus, Canada, China, India, Germany, Australia