Yara has signed a Heads of Terms for offtake from Atome’s proposed 264,000t per year renewable calcium ammonium nitrate (CAN) project in Villeta. Yara would market and sell the green CAN as part of the YaraBela product line, with the 145MW project scheduled to produce and export fertilizers derived from baseload renewable power from 2027.…
Dutch fertilizer major OCI Global has confirmed the first low-carbon material from its showcase Texas Blue Clean Ammonia project will emerge in early 2025 and that the facility it well-positioned for the arrival of Europe’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM). Due onstream in the first six months of next year, the Beaumont-based facility is at…
Yara plans to invest up to $2 billion in a second state-of-the-art blue ammonia plant as the Scandinavian group continues its push into low-carbon production capacity in the US and mulls permanent shutdowns of some European ammonia plants. Having recently set aside up to $1.45 billion for the full offtake of a 1.2-1.4m.t per…
European fertilizer market history will be made in around 10 days’ time when the first commercial shipment of blue ammonia ever marketed into the EU arrives at the Bulgarian port of Varna for Agropolychim. Produced and sold by Saudi major Ma’aden, the 25,000t cargo of low-carbon spot material will be discharged at the Black Sea…