CRU Phosphates +Potash welcomes you to Paris!

CRU’s Phosphates+Potash Expoconference, now in its 18th year, is returning to Paris this year. The 2025 event in Orlando was one of the most successful to date – attracting more than 400 delegates from over 150 companies and 30 countries.

It was all change in Orlando last year with the event championing the potash industry – alongside the phosphates sector – for the very first time. Paris will build on that success with a P&K themed event that lives up to its Phosphates+Potash name. Leading international producers, traders and engineering, technology and equipment providers are all expected to attend.

Bringing together two sister segments

Potash and phosphate are both mined commodities with common extractive and process technologies. Crushing, grinding, screening, pumping, froth flotation, liquid-solid separation, dewatering, drying, evaporation and crystallisation are common to both industries.

Because of that, phosphates people are, more often than not, also potash people. That applies to engineering companies, equipment manufacturers, reagent suppliers, technology providers and crop nutrient producers.

That’s why CRU is building a new global community that jointly celebrates the phosphate and potash industries. We invite you to join us in Paris – as well as spread the word that potash and phosphates have a new joint home.

Paris in the spring

Paris is on the world’s great capital cities and at its best in the spring. The event’s convenient and accessible western European location also makes it an ideal place for the global phosphates and potash industries to meet up, network and access crucial market intelligence and technical updates. Europe is a large demand centre for phosphate and is the original home of the potash industry. Germany and Spain remain large-scale potash producers.

This timely spring conference will inform and spur discussions on key issues such as sustainability, trade, supply chain challenges and technical advances – all of which are occurring against a tumultuous market backdrop of conflict, geopolitical upheaval, volatile fertilizer prices and supply constraints.

What to expect – the 2026 agenda

Uniquely, CRU Phosphates+Potash combines a commercial agenda with a technical agenda in one single event. This enables the conference to cover the entire value chain of the phosphate and potash industries from both an operational and market perspective.

This year’s conference features a typically strong commercial programme. This will offer up key insights and in-depth market information on the supply, demand and pricing of P&K raw materials and finished products. Commercial programme highlights include:

• Phosphates and potash markets in transition

• The LFP-driven specialty phosphates boom

• Phosphate rock market dynamics and LatAm production

• Investment outlook and financing trends for phosphate & potash assets

• Recent phosphate industry dynamics and factors to watch in 2026

• Phosphate and potash industry decarbonisation

• Cost pressures – sulphur price effects on phosphate production

• Benefits to producers from better phosphate use efficiency (PUE)

• Elemental phosphorus markets

• Unconventional phosphate production

• Other phosphates uses – electrification.

The event also offers a separate but equally strong technical programme. This is designed to cater to the needs of production personnel throughout the phosphate and potash value chains. To kick things off, the 2026 conference offers an impressive lineup of 14 technical showcase presentations on the opening afternoon. These punchy 15-minute pitches are a great primer and an ‘industry 101’ on all things technical.

The technical programme provides a deep dive into the intricacies of new technology, groundbreaking processes, novel materials and state-of-the-art equipment. Delegates will discover how these margin-improving innovations can elevate production efficiency, ensure environmental compliance, and increase operating capacities and plant output.

Register today for your place at CRU Phosphates+Potash 2026 in Paris. For more information visit: events.crugroup.com/phosphates/home