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.
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.
Cefic has sharpened its warning over the EU’s Emissions Trading System (ETS), saying the European Commission’s July revision proposal could accelerate deindustrialisation despite including some of the changes industry had asked for.
The Council of the EU has adopted a regulation giving member states new tools to support farmers hit by sharply higher fertilizer and input costs linked to the recent crisis in the Middle East.