Tag: Phosphates

OCP can now produce more than five million tonnes of triple superphosphate (TSP) annually.

Price trends and market outlook, 21st August 2025

Danny Luu , Processing Engineer, Derrick Corporation, outlines the transformative role of fine screening in potash and phosphate processing.

Marc Sonveaux highlights Prayon’s innovative approach to fluorosilicic acid (FSA) valorisation.

Phospholutions is meeting the phosphorus efficiency challenge head-on with its proprietary RhizoSorb® technology.

Dr Karl Wyant, Nutrien’s Director of Agronomy, looks at past innovations and what the future holds for phosphorus in farming.

The progressive closure of smelter capacity in Australia poses potential problems for acid consumers across the country.

Saipem has won a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract from Sonatrach for an integrated phosphate fertilizer project in Algeria. The contract was awarded through a dual competitive process, enabling the design work to be conducted by both Saipem and a competitor company. Sonatrach will assess and compare the two FEED options from both parties, select the best technical and economic design, and then proceed with the direct award of an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to execute the project.

OCP Nutricrops has received a certification that its customised phosphate fertilizers, developed specifically for the European market, meet the EU’s stringent low cadmium content requirements. The certified fertilizers contain less than 20 milligrams of cadmium per kilogram of phosphorus pentoxide (P2 O5 ), far below the European Union’s regulatory ceiling of 60 mg/kg. OCP Nutricrops says that it plans to expand this low-cadmium benchmark across all its fertilizer products worldwide by the end of 2025. Reducing cadmium in agricultural fertilizers is considered a public health priority across Europe. This initiative is closely aligned with EU goals to mitigate food-related health risks and safeguard ecosystems from harmful contaminants.

Phosphate prices have been at high levels for a couple of years now, and talk at the recent International Fertilizer Association (IFA) meeting in Monaco was that it was not only continuing to support higher sulphur prices in spite of oversupply in the sulphur market, but that there seemed to be no prospect of it falling in the short term.