Tag: Yara

Yara’s full-year earnings (EBITDA) surged to $2.75bn in 2025, driven by stronger nitrogen margins, lower fixed costs and solid volumes.

Air Products and Yara International ASA say that they are working to combine Air Products’ industrial gas capabilities and low-emission hydrogen production with Yara’s ammonia production and distribution network, with several major projects under development.

ATOME has signed a definitive offtake agreement with Yara International for its Villeta project in Paraguay.

From ship to storage, Bruks Siwertell aims to ensure safe, reliable, high-capacity fertilizer transfers.

BASF and Yara International ASA say that they have jointly decided to discontinue their project to develop a 1.4 million t/a low-carbon ammonia production facility with carbon capture and storage in the US Gulf Coast region. The companies say that this decision reflects their “commitment to focus on initiatives with the highest potential to achieve their respective value creation goals.” Yara will continue its ammonia strategy as previously communicated, evaluating and maturing equity investment opportunities in US ammonia to determine the optimal project portfolio.

Yara has applied for a new environmental permit in order to be able to import 275,000 t/a of ammonia by rail to its site at Tertre in the Saint-Ghislain municipality. The permit will cover ammonia to continue to operate downstream nitric acid and ammonium nitrate production at Tertre following the closure of the site’s 400,000 t/a ammonia plant. A public inquiry into the permit is expected to be completed in early September 2025. Yara says that train traffic to the site will increase to around 5 trains per week if the permit is granted.

Yara signs minimum 10-year offtake agreement with ATOME for the purchase of ATOME's entire 260,000 tonne-per-year low-carbon fertilizer production at the Villeta Project in Paraguay

A summary of recent company appointments.

BASF Corporation has appointed Heather Remley as its new president and chief executive officer, effective April 1, 2025. She takes the helm of the North American arm of BASF SE, one of the world’s largest chemical companies. Remley has a background in global leadership and operations. Most recently, she was president of BASF’s global engineering services division in Ludwigshafen, Germany. Before that, she led the company’s North American petrochemicals business as senior vice president in Houston. Since joining BASF in 2016, she has held key positions across the US, China, and Germany.

We compare and contrast the 2024 financial performance of selected major fertilizer producers following the publication of fourth quarter results.