sexta-feira, 1 de fevereiro de 2013

Brazilian Fertilizers Industry - I Phosphates

Vale: 5 mines (Tapira, Araxá, Catalão, Cajati and Patos de Minas), 6 H3PO4 unities (4 at Uberaba, 1 in Cubatão and 1 in Cajati), 7 chemical complexes (a huge combinat in Uberaba, 4 unities in Cubatão, plus Araxá, Cajati and Guará).
Anglo American: shares a mine in Catalão with Vale, has two chemical complexes (Catalão and Cubatão, with H3PO4).
Galvani: mines (Salitre and Angico dos Dias) and chemical complexes (Paulínia and Luis Eduardo Magalhães).
Heringer: SSP (in Paulínia) and a lot of mixers.
Tortuga - DSM: almost leader in DCP with H3PO4 from Morocco. Plants in Mairinque, São Vicente and Pecem.
Yara: some SSP and a lot of mixers around the country.
Roullier: some SSP and mixers.
ICL is a leader in food and tech H3PO4 with a PPA plant at Cajati and purified phosphates plants in São José dos Campos and a blending plant in São Bernardo do Campo.
J.J. Abdala has a mine in Registro (Serrote, Fosforita Alvorada).
Mosaic, ADM, and a lot of Brazilian and foreigners companies like Abocol have SSP and mixers.
B&A (BTG + Agnelli): is implementing a SSP plant in Arraias (the was former Itafos).
There are juniors everywhere (from Rio Grande do Sul to Pará, in the Amazon).
Bigger clusters are in Rio Grande, Paranaguá, Cajati, Cubatão, Araxá, Catalão, Uberaba, Salvador, Maceió and smaller in Ponta Grossa, Imbituba, Patrocínio, Paulínia, Angico dos Dias, Luís Eduardo and so on.
More than 10 million tons/year of products, around 5 million tons of P2O5 a year.