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Acron is a global mineral fertiliser producer of complex fertilisers such as NPK and bulk blends, and nitrogen fertilisers such as urea, ammonium nitrate and urea-ammonium nitrate. [2] The Group's key markets are Russia, Brazil, Europe and the United States.
CF Industries Holdings, Inc. is an American manufacturer and distributor of agricultural fertilizers, including ammonia, urea, and ammonium nitrate products. The company is based in Northbrook, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, [3] and was founded in 1946 as the Central Farmers Fertilizer Company.
It owns three plants that produce liquid fertiliser, ammonia, urea, and ammonium nitrate. [2] The company and the 1st Ammonia Urea plant was established at 1976. [6] It is located at Abu Qir Bay, 20 kilometers east of Alexandria. In 2023, AFC was listed as number 12 in Forbes' Top 50 Listed Companies in Egypt 2023. [2]
Dyno Nobel ASA combined with the Ensign-Bickford Company in 2003 and were restructured again in 2005. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] By 2007 they had over 3,500 employees and 36 manufacturing facilities. [ 12 ] In 2008 Australian agrochemical maker Incitec Pivot Limited (an ASX Top 50 company) bought Dyno Nobel for A$3.3 billion.
Ammonium nitrate is an important fertilizer with NPK rating 34-0-0 (34% nitrogen). [17] It is less concentrated than urea (46-0-0), giving ammonium nitrate a slight transportation disadvantage. Ammonium nitrate's advantage over urea is that it is more stable and does not rapidly lose nitrogen to the atmosphere.
According to company figures, Uralchem has annual production capacities of 3 million tons of ammonia and ammonium nitrate, 1.2 million tons of urea as well as 1 million tons of phosphate and complex fertilizers, [27] accounting for 27.6 percent of ammonium nitrate, 16.9 percent of ammonia and 15 percent of urea production in Russia.
In response to changes in mining technology, the product line expanded to include blasting agents based on ammonium nitrate and nitric acid in the 1940s. [7] Ammonium nitrate was produced from anhydrous ammonia and air (the DuPont process) beginning in the 1950s. [7] The original nitroglycerine-based products were phased out by 1983. [2]
The company was established in 1905 as Norsk Hydro — the world's first producer of mineral nitrogen fertilizers — and de-merged as Yara International ASA on 25 March 2004. [6] Yara is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange and has its headquarters in Oslo .