Contact
Resource Center
Sulfuric Acid Forum
Home
News
Events
Subscribe
Advertise
In This Issue
Latest News
»
2/19/2009
Central Maintenance and Welding, Inc. Fabricates Vessel for Koch Knight LLC
Lithia, Florida – With their initial order from Koch Knight LLC in East Canton, Ohio, Central Maintenance and Welding, Inc. (CMW) recently completed a custom metal fabrication project for a final absorbing tower pump tank. The combination of brick li
»
1/21/2009
Changes to BHP Billiton's Nickel Business
BHP Billiton announced that it will immediately commence the safe ramp down and indefinite suspension of the Ravensthorpe Nickel Operation (Australia). As a consequence, Yabulu (Australia) will cease processing mixed nickel cobalt hydroxide product
»
1/8/2009
Uranium One to invest in Russia sulfuric acid plant
LONDON -- Toronto-listed miner Uranium One plans to invest in a Russian sulfuric acid plant as a backup to secure supply. “We intend to invest in a plant in Russia as a source of secure supply should there be another disruption in Kazakhstan,” chief e
»
10/8/2008
Bateman wins sulfuric acid contract
LONDON -- Bateman Engineering has signed a contract with Dynatec Madagascar SA (DMSA), valued at approximately $100 million, for the provision of sulfuric acid facilities for its Ambatovy Nickel project in Madagascar. The engineering and procurement
Blog Home
|
In This Issue
In This Issue
Posted By
at
12/2/2011
Cover Story
OCP Group — building on the past, looking to the future
For a nation only slightly larger than the state of California, Morocco seems to do things big. For Morocco-based Office Cherifien des Phosphates (OCP), things are about to get bigger. Starting this fall, OCP, which already assumes the role as top owner of the world’s phosphate reserves, will begin construction of four new fertilizer plants in the port of Jorf Lasfar. The total investment is estimated at about 2.5 billion USD.
Morocco owns about two thirds of the world's reserves of phosphate rock, which the four new plants will leverage, raising OCP’s mining capacity by nearly 70 percent. Also increasing will be Morocco’s production capacity of downstream fertilizers, including diammonium phosphate (DAP), which is expected to reach 3,800,000 tons annually. The four new units will make Morocco “by far the largest supplier of phosphate rock, phosphoric acid, DAP and monoammonium phosphate (MAP),” OCP said.
OCP’s investment is based on expected increases in phosphate demand, driven by rising world population, changing diets and the need to improve agriculture yields in Africa and other developing areas. “This major investment in increasing our capacity is a prudent response to long-term market trends and a strong sign of OCP’s commitment to do its part to assure a stable, reliable supply of this vital resource to global markets,” OCP Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Mostafa Terrab said.
Read More>>
Also included in this issue...
INDUSTRY & PRODUCT NEWS
Freeport-McMoRan completes Safford sulfur burner
Central Engineering opens satellite office in Louisiana
Topsøe’s WSA technology – now 100 plants and still going strong
CER signs $9.9 Million contract with Beijing Guodian Longyuan Environmental Engineering Co., Ltd
Outotec to deliver gas cleaning and sulfuric acid plant technology to Uzbekistan Ma’aden and SABIC joint venture begins production
Qatar looks to become major player in sulfur industry
FEATURES & GUEST COLUMNS
Global sulfuric acid market–review of 2011 and outlook for 2012
Hydrogen safety in the sulfuric acid industry
Safety! The next frontier
Improving sulfuric acid plant performance with MECS’ new GEAR™ catalysts
The Roberts Company opens new fabrication facility in Winterville, NC
Tyco Thermal Controls offers new industrial strength acid leak sensors
NORAM introduces Hot Sweep to Matamoros, Mexico, facility
At Lewis Pumps, people make the difference
The optical DOAS gas monitoring technique
Acid plant upgrades to acid systems
Corrosion prevention with anodic protection
Steuler-KCH — Complete solutions, one supplier
DuPont’s sulfuric acid safety seminars bears repeating
Rockwood Pigments chooses Beltran system
Sulfuric acid professionals attend the 2011 AIChE Clearwater Convention
Sharing information at the 2011 Sulfuric Acid Roundtable
Innovation was theme for first SYMPHOS conference
And much more!
To read the above articles
subscribe
today!