Category: Asia

China's Hubei Xingfa Chemicals Group will build a 2 Mt/y phosphogypsum-to-sulphuric acid project.

How quickly the sulphur market will recover after a turbulent second half of the year was one of the key themes of CRU’s Sulphur and Sulphuric Acid conference in Berlin on Tuesday.

Japan's largest power generator, JERA, has signed an agreement with Indian green ammonia producer AM Green to power ships with green ammonia.

Gujarat State Fertilizers & Chemicals Limited (GSFC) has awarded Tata Projects an engineering, procurement and construction contract for an integrated phosphoric acid and sulphuric acid complex at Sikka in Jamnagar, Gujarat, India.

JFE Steel, Mitsubishi Gas Chemical and Mitsubishi Chemical have begun a demonstration project in Japan that converts steelmaking by-product gas into methanol and then propylene.

A 32,000 t sulphuric acid cargo from China arrived in Mejillones, Chile at the end of September, marking the first shipment since China’s export ban took effect in May.

The continuing conflict in the Middle East is leading to heightened concerns of food shortages on the back of a sharp reduction in fertilizer shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, with poorer countries that struggle to diversify supplies most exposed to the risk.

INPEX Corp says that it has begun ammonia production at its demonstration project in Kashiwazaki City, Niigata, and has also begun supplying the ammonia to Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc. (MGC).

The Board of Directors (BoD) of Gujarat State Fertilizers & Chemicals Ltd (GSFC) approved the construction of a 600 t/d phosphoric acid plant and a 1,800 t/d sulphuric acid plant at the company's Sikka unit in Jamnagar, Gujarat, India,

Uzbek nitric acid producer Navoiyazot JSC has signed a contract with Swiss technology company CASALE SA for a secondary nitrous oxide (N₂O) abatement catalyst system at its plant in Navoiy, Uzbekistan.