Australian phosphate developer Avenira has signed a four-year agreement to supply 500,000 wet metric tonnes per year of phosphate rock from its proposed Wonarah project in the Northern Territory to Hebang Biotechnology (Hong Kong) Investment Limited.
Cargill has inaugurated a fertilizer plant at its Nueva Palmira operation in Uruguay, adding capacity for fertilizer preparation and dispatch, precision blends and plant-nutrition products for Uruguayan farmers.
A summary of recent company appointments.
CHS and OCP North America have unveiled plans to build the first major US phosphate fertilizer plant since 1984.
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.
Average phosphate rock grades globally have been on the slide since the 1970s. CRU’s Maria Gamboa looks at the most recent trends in rock grade and the cost implications for phosphate fertilizer production.
Brazil’s National Association for the Diffusion of Fertilizers (ANDA) has proposed an emergency $375 million subsidy to shield farmers from soaring sulphur prices. The proposal was presented to the government during the International Brazil Congress in São Paulo on 25 August.
ICL delivered its best quarterly operating income performance in three years in the Q2 2026 and used the results to unveil a broader corporate reshape.
Contractors have begun sinking the 160 bored concrete piles that will hold up the new above-ground processing hall at K+S's Wintershall potash plant in Heringen, central Germany, marking the first visible surface construction on the €600 million ($696 million) Werra 2060 transformation project.
Algeria and Oman have made a final investment decision to expand fertiliser production at the Algerian-Omani Fertiliser Company (AOA) plant in Arzew, in Algeria’s Oran province.