Tag: Investment

Fertilizer International presents a global round-up of phosphate rock, phosphoric acid and finished phosphates projects.

ATOME has signed definitive debt agreements for the $650 million Villeta green fertilizer project in Paraguay.

Indian renewables developer ACME says that it will partner with the Industrial Promotion and Investment Corporation of Odisha Ltd (IPICOL) to set up a green methanol plant in Kendrapada, Odisha state. He proposal is for a 200,000 t/a plant, with ACME taking a stake via its ACME Akaysha Energy subsidiary, part of its green hydrogen business. ACME says that the project forms part of its plans to develop multiple low carbon hydrogen plants and downstream chemical production. The company is planning a large green ammonia facility in Gopalpur through a joint venture with Japan-based IHI Corporation. It is also developing a 2,200 t/d green ammonia project in Paradip with cooperation from the Solar Energy Corporation of India. The output of the facilities will be used both for domestic applications and for export.

MAIRE’s technology arm NEXTCHEM has secured its largest contract to date, a €485 million ($563 million) package to license technologies...

Amarak Chemicals FZC says that it has begun operations at an automated sulphur fertilizer facility in ...

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 […]

India's state-owned Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers Ltd (RCF) has granted in-principle board approval to set up a new ...

China's Xingfa Chemicals Group is planning to invest $2bn in a three-phase project for phosphate ore exploration, extraction and downstream production in ...

At the CRU Nitrogen + Syngas conference, CRU spoke with Syed Aamir Abbas, Chief Technical Officer at Fauji Fertilizer Company Limited (FFC), about how Pakistan’s fertiliser sector is navigating tightening natural gas availability and what that means for future supply security.

Korea Zinc says it will partner with the US government to construct a critical minerals smelter in Clarksville, Tennessee, producing zinc, lead, and copper. Korea Zinc will begin site preparation next year, followed by phased commercial operations from 2029. The plant is planned to process around 1.0 million t/a of raw materials and turn out 540,000 st/a of finished products. Processing of gold, silver, and key strategic minerals such as antimony, indium, bismuth, tellurium, cadmium, palladium, gallium and germanium, are also planned in what is being touted as a "state-of-the-art" facility. Sulphuric acid and semiconductor-grade sulphuric acid will also be produced. The output will include 300,000 t/a of zinc production, 200,000 t/a of lead, 35,000 t/a of copper and 5,100 t/a of rare and strategic metals. Development will be through Korea Zinc’s US subsidiary, Crucible Metals.