A plan to use green hydrogen in ammonia synthesis at Incitec Pivot’s Gibson Island plant in Brisbane has progressed, with the Australian Renewable Energy Agency awarding $13.7 million to the consortium behind it for a $38 million front-end engineering and design (FEED) study. The Gibson Island green hydrogen project was first raised by Incitec –…
Crop nutrition business Yara Australia has announced that it will sell its Yara Nipro liquid fertiliser business to Incitec Pivot Fertilisers. Subject to ACCC approval, the transaction is expected to be complete later this year. It will include production plants at Moree and Griffith (both in NSW) and Boundary Bend (in Victoria) and distribution and…
Fertiliser and explosives manufacturer Incitec Pivot increased production of Adblue by roughly 800 per cent last week in response to a shortage of the diesel fuel additive, which appears to have eased. Incitec was awarded $29.4 million in December by the federal government in response to a supply crunch in December, which the Australian Trucking…
What were the five biggest stories of the week? Here’s what visitors to @AuManufacturing were reading. 5) Incitec Pivot’s fertiliser business heads for foreign control Yet another Australian manufacturing operation is heading for foreign control with fertiliser and explosives business Incitec Pivot confirming it was negotiating the sale of its fertiliser manufacturing to an Indonesian…
Chemistry Australia has announced the winners of the 2024 Industry Awards, with awards going to leaders of the Australian chemistry industry gathered in Melbourne. The achievements of finalists and winners were celebrated across six award categories. Chemistry Australia CEO Samantha Read said the Industry Awards continue to be an important opportunity to highlight the valuable…
Coal to fertiliser producer NeuRizer has secured a second customer for its one million tonne per annum urea plant under construction at the former Leigh Creek brown coal field in mid-north South Australia. The company told investors it had signed a Term Sheet with Samsung C&T Corporation to negotiate a 5-year Sales and Marketing Agreement…
Cobram Estate now the US’s biggest producer of olive oil Cobram Estate Olives has likely become the largest olive oil producer in the United States following strong growth seen in the just completed 2023 Californian harvest season. The company saw the production of 3.2 million litres of olive oil, 89 percent higher than 29022’s harvest…
Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue Metals Group has pressed ‘go’ on three green hydrogen projects in Australia and internationally to cost a collective $1.14 billion (US$750 million) over the next three years. The company’s board announced final investment decision had been reached on two green energy projects including one planned for Gladstone, Queensland and a green metals…
What were the five biggest stories of the week? Here’s what visitors to this site were reading. 5) Search for industry partners for a Surface Manufacturing CRC Researchers led by UniSA are searching for companies interested to develop surface processing capabilities in a planned Surface Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre (SMCRC). Surface Engineering and Manufacturing optimise…
Fortescue continues to make progress towards its goal of being the number one green technology, energy and metals business, according to its latest quarterly report. While iron ore shipments totalled 45.9 million tonnes (Mt) in Q1 FY24, attention was on achievements in the company’s move into the green energy space. During the quarter Fortescue: Completed…
