Yara and BASF team up to build a world-class ammonia plant in the United States

On April 11, 2018, Yara and BASF held an opening ceremony for a new world-scale ammonia plant in Freeport, Texas, USA
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It costs 600 million US dollars and uses advanced equipment and a cost-effective and sustainable production process based on by-product hydrogen instead of natural gas
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? Yara and BASF will own 68% and 32% of the ammonia plant, respectively
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The plant is located in BASF's Freeport plant and has an annual production capacity of 750,000 tons
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Each party will own the product based on its ownership share
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? Yara President and CEO SveinTore Holsether said, "We have joined hands with BASF to establish a world-class ammonia plant, which not only improves safety, efficiency and quality, but also applies the industrial symbiosis principle of by-products as raw materials for ammonia production.
It has consolidated Yara’s leading position in the global ammonia market and is able to penetrate the North American market
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? Wayne
Smith, a member of the Executive Board of BASF and Chairman and CEO of BASF .
Smith stated that “this joint venture with Yara not only strengthens the free port production The integration of the base also reflects BASF's commitment to investment in North America.
The new plant enables us to use world-class production and competitive raw material costs to improve the competitiveness of the value chain in the region
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? Conventional ammonia plants need to use natural gas to produce the required hydrogen in the ammonia production process
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Yara’s hydrogen technology replaces this original production step, thereby reducing expenditures and costs
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By using hydrogen from various nearby petrochemical plants, Yara Ran has improved resource utilization and reduced its impact on the environment
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? The long-term hydrogen and nitrogen supply agreement signed with Praxair and the low natural gas price in North America increase the raw material cost advantage of the project
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? BASF will use ammonia to produce polyamide 6 This kind of polyamide 6 is usually used to produce carpet fibers, packaging and shells for the wire and cable market
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The polyamide 6 used for injection molding can be used as high-performance engineering plastics for automotive applications
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Yara will be sold to industrial customers in North America and the agricultural sector Its ammonia share
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To support the new plant, Yara established an ammonia storage site in Freeport
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BASF upgraded its existing terminals and pipelines
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