Fertilizer International
The magazine for the global fertilizer industry

Latest issue:
September/October 2018

• Pursell Agri-Tech: the 114-year old start-up
  Alabama-based Pursell Agri-Tech, although a relatively new start-up, can draw on a long heritage of fertilizer industry innovation. The company's chairman, Taylor Pursell, talks to Fertilizer International in an exclusive interview.

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• Boron bestows benefits
  Boron is a key micronutrient required by crops such as alfalfa, corn, cotton, rice, sugar cane, oil palm, potato and soybean. We look at the agricultural importance of boron and the wide range of products on the market.

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• Enhancing efficiency for greater growth
  The imposition of new environmental regulations in key markets will drive greater use of controlled-release and slow-release fertilizers. Global demand for these environmentally-friendly and more efficient alternatives to conventional fertilizers is growing strongly in China and the United States, explains Ralf Gubler, director of research & analysis, fertilizer & industrial gases at IHS Markit.

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• Water-soluble fertilizers: quality and compatibility
  The high quality of water-soluble fertilizers is valued by growers and distributors alike. The use of low-quality products, or incompatibilities between fertilizers and irrigation water, can damage expensive drip irrigation equipment. We look at the quality and compatibility of water-soluble fertilizers and how this affects their performance.

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• Southeast Asia's nitrogen market
  Extra capacity is altering nitrogen market trade dynamics in Southeast Asia. New ammonia-urea plants in Indonesia, Malaysia and Borneo look set to ease import reliance and turn the region into a net exporter.

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• CVM: creating and capturing value
  Customer Value Management (CVM) can provide fertilizer producers with a greater insight into the needs of their customers and what drives value within their businesses. Phil Allen of CVMe and Dimitrios Dimitriou of Nexant explain how traditional, low-cost, commodity-based producers can use CVM to move downstream and get closer to customers. In doing so, they can differentiate products to create and capture more value – and radically improve their profitability and market position in the process.

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• Uniting the micro with the macro
  Plant nutrients work best together in unison. To maximise crop yields, a wide spectrum of nutrients needs to be delivered in the right place at the right time in the right macro and micro amounts. The innovative micronutrient delivery system (MDS) from Omex Agrifluids does this by applying and keeping macronutrients and micronutrients together, as agronomist Dr Terry Mabbett explains.

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• Wave goodbye to sulphur melter emissions
  The MECS® DynaWave® scrubber from DuPont Clean Technologies is an innovative yet surprisingly simple solution for reducing sulphur melter emissions. Yves Herssens, global licensing manager, scrubbing technologies, DuPont Clean Technologies, explains more in this case study of an installation at The Mosaic Company's New Wales site in Florida.

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• Sulphur supply shifts east
  Most of the new sulphur supply capacity expected globally over the next few years will come from a rise in sour gas production. New projects are concentrated in the Middle East, Central Asia and China. We review major new sulphur recovery projects in these three regions.

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• Rapid phos acid process monitoring
  Incitec Pivot has adopted a new computer-controlled thermal analysis method to monitor the P2O5 content of phosphoric acid at its Phosphate Hill plant in Queensland, Australia. The rapid hourly measurements obtained help improve filtration efficiency and reduce co-crystallised losses, explains Stewart Bache, Incitec Pivot's chemist at Phosphate Hill.

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• Canpotex – Canada's export colossus
  We profile Canpotex, Canada's export consortium, highlighting its continuing success in Asian and Latin American markets, and reviewing its major transport, terminal and shipping capabilities and investments.

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• Belarus aims high
  Belarus, alongside Canada and Russia, is a front-ranking potash-producing nation. The completion of large-scale projects, financed with the help of foreign investors, could further transform the Belarussian potash industry, reports Eugene Gerden.

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