€1.3 million K+S project offers support to 10,000 East African farmers
The ‘Grow Eastern Africa’ project aims to improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers by delivering higher yields and promoting climate-smart farming practices.
Category: Sustainability/Environment
Yara opens Europe’s largest carbon capture project
The €200 million project was officially opened on 7th September in an inauguration ceremony at Sluiskil in the Netherlands attended by the Norwegian and Dutch prime ministers.
Prayon – a company built on quality, innovation and trusted partnerships
Cover story! In an exclusive interview, Fertilizer International speaks to Tibaut Theys, General Manager, Prayon Technologies, ahead of the Arab Fertilizer Association’s Technical Conference in Amman, Jordan, in November.
Next-generation nitric acid production
The NX Stami™ Nitrates Total Recycle concept is a major step forward in nitric acid technology, as Paz Muñoz of Stamicarbon (Nextchem) explains.
A cost-effective, cleaner route to potassium sulphate
Ballestra’s Stefano Vignando provides an overview of an innovative, room-temperature, water-based route for potassium sulphate (SOP) production.
Decarbonising the phosphate and potash industries
ERM and Systemiq, in collaboration with the International Fertilizer Association (IFA), have developed a roadmap on phosphate and potash decarbonisation.
Integrating REE recovery into phosphate processing flowsheets
Lyndsay Tran, Khanh Pham and Gabriela Olvera of Hatch look at the options for rare earth element (REE) recovery from phosphogypsum (PG) and their relative merits.
Beaumont New Ammonia plant under review
Woodside Energy has placed its newly operational Beaumont New Ammonia (BNA) plant in Texas under review. It is also abandoning $5 billion of planned investment in new energy projects.
OMV takes green methanol from Kasso plant
Green methanol has begun to be shipped to Austria's OMV from the Solar Park Kasso plant. The plant is operated by a joint venture between Mitsui & Co., Ltd, with a 49% share, and renewable energy company European Energy A/S (51%). The plant, located in Kassø, southern Denmark, was inaugurated on 13 May 2025 and is based on hydrogen derived from solar electricity from the adjacent 304 MW Kassø Solar Park, which is then combined with biogenic CO2 and distilled to 99.9% purity, suitable for combustion engines and plastics production. The plant makes 42,000 t/a of green methanol.
Oriana Power commits $510m to Maharashtra green hydrogen complex
TrueRE Oriana Power has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Government of Maharashtra to invest around INR 45 billion ($510 million) in an integrated green hydrogen, green ammonia and green methanol project in the western Indian state.