Itafos reports higher phosphates, acid production in 2025
US-based phosphate producer Itafos reported higher production in 2025, as well as higher sales prices, in ...
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New sulphur fertilizer plant opens at Jebel Ali
Amarak Chemicals FZC says that it has begun operations at an automated sulphur fertilizer facility in ...
FID expected soon on blue methanol project
Transition Industries has signed a long-term firm natural gas supply contract for the Pacifico Mexinol project in Topolobampo, Sinaloa state with CFEnergía.
Agreement signed with green ammonia developer
The government of Morocco has signed an agreement with the ORNX consortium to advance a $4.5 billion green ammonia project in the southern...
JPMC to build new sulphuric acid plant
The Indo-Jordan Chemicals Company (IJCC), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Jordan Phosphate Mines Company (JPMC), has signed a $193 million strategic agreement with China’s East China Engineering Science and Technology Company to construct a sulphuric acid plant in the Shidiya area. The new facility will have a capacity of 900,000 t/a of concentrated sulphuric […]
Honeywell and JM amend terms of Catalyst takeover
Honeywell and Johnson Matthey have agreed to amend the agreement for Honeywell’s purchase of JM’s Catalyst Technologies business segment. Honeywell’s payment for the business has been reduced from £1.8 billion ($2.43 billion) to £1.325 billion ($1.8 billion), and the completion date for the transaction has been extended to July 21, 2026, with a possible extension […]
Round up day two, CRU Nitrogen+Syngas ExpoConference
Day two of CRU’s Nitrogen+Syngas Expoconference 2026 saw the conference move into its technical sessions, run in three parallel streams covering everything from low carbon hydrogen production, sustainable plants, emissions reductions, carbon capture, ammonia plant operations, syngas and methanol production to asset safety and maintenance. Blue ammonia One of the things that struck me most, […]
Round up day one CRU Nitrogen+Syngas ExpoConference
CRU’s Nitrogen+Syngas Expoconference 2026 returned to Barcelona for its second year running to discuss the state of the industry, both economically and technically. The opening included a tribute to Casale’s late Dr Umberto Zardi by Norbert Ringer of Clariant and Lisa Connock, Managing Editor of Nitrogen+Syngas magazine. Dr Zardi, whose obituary we carried in issue […]