Fertilizer International
The magazine for the global fertilizer industry

Latest issue:
September/October 2019

• Australia's fertilizer market
  Australia is hosting IFA's Crossroads Asia-Pacific conference in October. The country is home to fertilizer manufacturers such as CSBP, Incitec Pivot, Orica and Yara Australia.

  Full article: 4,261 words | add to basket (£25)

• Micronutrient biofortification
  Micronutrient-enriched fertilizers have a major role to play in tackling deficiencies in both crops and human diets. Zinc deficiency, in particular, affects nearly half of cultivated soils worldwide. The range of soil-applied, foliar and fertigation products are reviewed.

  Full article: 3,317 words | add to basket (£25)

• Maintain quality, minimise loss
  The degradation of finished fertilizers during transport, handling and storage can be avoided by protecting surfaces with chemical agents. We survey the range of anti-caking, water repellent and anti-dusting additives currently on the market.

  Full article: 1,897 words | add to basket (£25)

• Next-generation fertilizer colourants
  Novel colourant technology is creating new opportunities for fertilizer manufacturers. Milliken believes that the time is ripe for new colourant technology in agriculture, as Adam Newberry, Milliken's Global Product Line Manager, explains.

  Full article: 1,180 words | add to basket (£25)

• Enhanced nitrogen products
  Enhanced efficiency fertilizers have a definite role to play in the sustainable increases in crop production that will be required to feed a growing population. Controlled-release and stabilised urea products are capturing a greater share of the market and being applied more to broad acre crops, as Solvay's Krish Shanmuga explains. Asia, in particular, is showing huge potential for stabilised nitrogen fertilizers, as is Europe, where the introduction of new regulations is expected to boost demand.

  Full article: 1,965 words | add to basket (£25)

• Improving nutrient use efficiency
  More of the nutrients applied to soil will need to be taken up by crops, rather than being lost to the environment, if we are to produce more food from the same area of land in future. New controlled-release fertilizers (CRFs) suitable for broad-acre agriculture show great potential for improving crop yields and improving farm economics while minimising nutrient losses. Harold van der Zande, business development manager at Stamicarbon, explains how 'smart' fertilizers such as CRFs can bring about a step-change in nutrient use efficiency.

  Full article: 1,740 words | add to basket (£25)

• Kingenta, the global innovator
  We profile Kingenta Ecological Engineering Group, China's leading compound and speciality fertilizer producer. With its growing international presence, ambitious retail expansion and commitment to innovation and sustainability, Kingenta is helping reinvent fertilizer manufacturing for the 21st century.

  Full article: 1,303 words | add to basket (£25)

• Enhancing urea with sulphur
  Shell Thiogro Technologies are changing the way the fertilizer industry thinks about elemental sulphur, as agronomist Dr Kent Martin explains. Two innovative technologies from the company, Urea-ES and Special-S, are helping fertilizer producers diversify their product portfolios. Both products provide farmers with a flexible source of sulphur fertilizer and are well-suited to a wide variety of growing conditions and crop requirements.

  Full article: 1,910 words | add to basket (£25)

• The US fertilizer industry: sustainability champion
  The priorities of the US fertilizer industry are becoming strongly aligned with United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Lara Moody and Melinda Sposari of The Fertilizer Institute explain how US fertilizer producers, distributors and retailers are raising the bar on sustainability and making a very real contribution towards SDGs.

  Full article: 2,618 words | add to basket (£25)

• NPK production routes
  Higher margins and better market growth prospects are behind the changeover in plant capacity from phosphate fertilizers to NPKs. Dave Ivell of Worley describes the main production routes for NPK manufacture – and their relative merits and demerits.

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• Casale's NPK production technologies
  Single and dual pipe reactor technologies provide a safe, flexible and efficient way of producing solid NPKs. Casale's Jean François Granger describes their design features and main advantages.

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• EuroChem's potash ramp-up
  EuroChem Group's $2.1 billion Usolskiy project in Russia's Perm region is now fully operational, while work continues at its sister project, the $2.9 billion VolgaKaliy mine in the Volgograd region, to enable it to enter production in late 2020. We provide an update on the first phase of both projects and their scheduled ramp-up in production.

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