Canada's Capstone Copper has approved a $45 million pyrite recovery project at its Mantoverde copper operation in Chile that will cut the mine's sulphuric acid consumption by around 90,000 t/y, the company said in its second-quarter results on 30 July.
The US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) has signed a $5.7 million grant agreement with Morocco-based joint venture ORNX Laayoune 1 SASU (ORNX) to fund a pre-front end engineering and design (pre-FEED) study for a large-scale green ammonia plant.
India's GAIL (India) Limited and Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers Limited (RCF) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly establish a gas-based urea plant in the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, the state-owned gas transporter said in a stock-exchange filing on 29 July.
Trinidad and Tobago's ammonia, urea and urea ammonium nitrate (UAN) exports to the United States will attract 0% duty under a set of product exemptions published alongside the final action in the US Trade Representative's Section 301 forced-labour investigation.
China's Envision Energy has signed a low-carbon ammonia environmental attribute purchase agreement with PepsiCo APAC and delivered the first 1,000 tonnes of environmental attribute certificates (EACs) linked to its Chifeng Net Zero Industrial Park in Inner Mongolia.
Czech-headquartered Agrofert Group has established a new sub-holding company, AGF Nitrogen, a.s., to coordinate the activities of its pan-European chemical division.
India’s government has set out a package of measures to strengthen domestic fertilizer production, diversify raw material and import sources, and ensure uninterrupted availability of fertilizers despite global supply disruptions and price volatility.
Hynfra, a Polish developer of green hydrogen and ammonia projects, has signed a memorandum of understanding with a Philippine partner to build a green ammonia complex on the island of Mindoro.
Mexico’s Fermachem is moving ahead with a large nitrogen fertilizer plant in Lerdo, Durango, backed by federal and state authorities and positioned as one of the largest industrial investments in the state.
Project Meadowlark, the more than $1 billion homegrown nitrogen fertilizer complex in Gothenburg, Nebraska that we reported on in May, has taken a major step forward with Topsoe selected to supply blue ammonia technology for the site.