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Phosphate manufacturing is being enhanced thanks to process integration, digitalisation and other advances.

The feed phosphates industry is caught between conflicting trends currently, according to Alberto Persona of the Fertecon fertilizer team at IHS Markit. While the long-term demand-side fundamentals look broadly stable, there is still likely to be a fight for market share due to competition from substitute products and the emergence of new projects.

Meena Chauhan, Head of Sulphur and Sulphuric Acid Research, Argus Media, assesses price trends and the market outlook for sulphur.

The latest developments in the recovery and commercialisation of fluorosilicic acid, rare earth elements (REEs) and uranium co-products associated with phosphoric acid production.

As well as Morocco, Egypt, Algeria and Tunisia all have major phosphate industries, and all of these countries have plans to expand their capability to extract and process phosphates, though Algeria and Tunisia remain hampered by political instability.

The delivery of nitrogen in nitrate form can deliver superior yields and quality in arable, fruit and vegetable crops. Because of this, production and consumption of the principal nitrate fertilizers – ammonium nitrate (AN), calcium ammonium nitrate (CAN), urea ammonium nitrate (UAN), potassium nitrate (NOP) and calcium nitrate (CN) – continue to grow.

Vacuum filtration is a key process step in phosphoric acid production. We highlight the main equipment options and recent project installations.

Phosphogypsum is finding increasing use in plaster and cement manufacture, roadbed construction and afforestation. We look at how previously unwanted solid waste generated by the phosphate industry is being turned into a valued resource.

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

Prayon’s Hadrien Leruth and Marc Sonveaux highlight the latest phosphate production developments at the company – and share their experience of how innovative ideas are validated, industrialised and turned into commercially-viable technologies.