PhosAgro starts up production line at Volkhov site
The new production facility, which has a capacity of 300 000 tpy, has produced its first batch of MAP, a nitrogen-phosphorous fertilizer.
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The new production facility, which has a capacity of 300 000 tpy, has produced its first batch of MAP, a nitrogen-phosphorous fertilizer.
Mayo Schmidt succeeds Chuck Magro, who is stepping down from his management and Board role at the company to pursue new opportunities.
The order, booked in March 2021, focuses on improving overall plant production through improved plant availability and throughput.
Arianne partnered with the Quebec Center of Geomatics (CGQ) to advance research and development on a new method for the design and future monitoring of the company’s tailings operations.
According to experts, the change means that an additional 2 million t of apatite-nepheline ore will be mined from the open pit southwestern side.
Through dltledgers’ blockchain platform OCP Group delivered phosphate fertilizers from Morocco to Ethiopia, making OCP Group the first African company to execute an intra-African trade transaction using blockchain.
The company has released its audited consolidated IFRS financial statements for 2020 and said it has launched three projects – construction of a calcium nitrate production facility and upgrading of the Ammonia-3 unit at its Novgorod site, and construction of a nitric acid unit at its Dorogobuzh site.
The company has opened a new monoammonium phosphate (MAP) production facility, with a capacity of 231 000 tpy, at its Volkhov site in the Leningrad region of Russia.
The facility will support OCP Group’s expansion plans across Africa.
The duties will be imposed following a decision by the United States International Trade Commission that the US phosphate industry has been materially injured by imports of phosphate fertilizers from Morocco and Russia.
It is expected that project construction of the plant in Akwa Ibom state will commence no later than 3Q21. In the first phase of the project, US$1.4 billion will be invested in building out the plant and its supporting infrastructure with a target operations-commencement date of 2025.
The Goa plant of Zuari Agrochemicals is engaged in the manufacture, distribution, imports and sale of urea, DAP and various grades of NPK fertilizers, with a total installed capacity of 1.2 million tpy.