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VIDEO – ICIS news Americas Lunchtime Bulletin 8 February 2010

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:08:00 GMT

Here is the lunchtime bulletin for the Americas on Monday from ICIS news TV. The Lunchtime Bulletin brings you all the latest chemicals and market news and pricing trends three times a day from the ICIS news and ICIS pricing editorial centres in Singapore, London, and Hou

VIDEO – ICIS news Americas Lunchtime Bulletin 8 February 2010

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:04:00 GMT

PotashCorp raises stake in Israel Chemical

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:47:00 GMT

HOUSTON (ICIS news)--Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan (PotashCorp) has raised its stake in Israel Chemical by 1.5% to 13.9%, the Canadian fertilizer maker said on Monday. PotashCorp, the world’s largest fertilizer company, now owns about 176m shares of ICL, the world's sixth-largest producer of potash and the second-largest company listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, according to news reports. For more on fertilizers visit ICIS pricing fertilizers To discuss issues facing the chemical industry go to ICIS connect

Weather could end Poland's fertilizer output boom - industry body

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:20:00 GMT

PRAGUE (ICIS news)--Polish fertilizer producers’ encouraging production rates could soon be tempered by the adverse effect of this year’s cold winter season, the Polish Chamber of the Chemical Industry (PIPC) said on Monday. PIPC director Jerzy Majchrzak spoke in the wake of an announcement from Zaklady Azotowe Tarnow (ZAT) that improving markets and the beginning of the European fertilizer season meant its 450,000 tonne/year nitrogen fertilizer unit was producing at 100% capacity. “With February, the farmers have begun to fertilize the fields. But because of this year’s severe frosts and so much snow cover, it will be difficult for the fertilizer producers to count on the season [driving up sales],” said Majchrzak. “This weather is not conducive to helping the companies exit the financial crisis,” he added. In response to Majchrzak's comments, Alicja Stronciwilk, a spokeswoman for nitrogen fertil

Corrected: Canpotex sells potash to China

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:46:00 GMT

Correction: In the ICIS news story headlined “Canpotex sells potash to China” dated 8 February 2010, please read in the first paragraph … a deal to sell about 350,000 tonnes of potash to China’s Sinofert … instead of … China’s Sinofert at $350/tonne (€256/tonne) delivered … Please read in the second paragraph … the sale was completed at a competitive price, which was not disclosed … instead of … the sale, valued at $122.5m, was completed at a competitive price …. Please read in the third paragraph …Other potash sales to China … instead of …Potash sales to China …. A corrected story follows. HOUSTON (ICIS news)--Canpotex, the marketing arm for three major Canadian potash producers, said on Monday it had signed a deal to sell about 350,000 tonnes of

US senators seek 5-year extension of site security law

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:04:00 GMT

WASHINGTON (ICIS news)--A bipartisan group of US senators wants to extend the existing federal mandate over antiterrorism security measures at high-risk chemical plants for another five years, according to legislation circulated on Friday. Led by Senator Susan Collins of Maine, the senior Republican on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, the two Republican and two Democrat senators said a five-year extension of the existing site security regulations would give federal enforcement officials sufficient time to fully implement the 2007 law. The regulations, known formally as the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS), are due to expire

Tata Chemicals plans 1m tonne/year Morocco DAP plant

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:39:00 GMT

LONDON (ICIS news)--India’s Tata Chemicals plans to construct a 1m tonne/year diammonium phosphate (DAP) plant in Morocco as part of plans to boost its global fertilizer operation, managing director Ramakrishnan Mukundan told ICIS news on Friday. The plant will convert phosphoric acid already produced by Tata at the port of Jorf Lasfar facility for export to India. The company currently exports its Moroccan phosphoric acid production directly to India for conversion to DAP and other complex fertilizers. The investment is under examination - it will be capital intensive, Mukundan said. "It’s at the planning st

Romania fertilizer plants to restart as gas deliveries resume

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:10:00 GMT

BUCHAREST (ICIS news)--Romanian fertilizer producers will resume full production this weekend after output was halted last month when cold weather reduced gas supplies, company officials said on Friday. “We can now run on full capacity as the gas deliveries resumed at normal standards,” said an official with Turnu, which has facilities at Turnu Magurele, in southern Romania, Turnu is a subsidiary of InterAgro. The official added that production was back to normal at all other InterAgro subsidiaries, including Viromet and Sofert, which were also forced to stop production on 20 January due to reduced gas supplies. Producer

US Senate bill will force producers to prove chemical safety

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:40:00 GMT

WASHINGTON (ICIS news)--The top US Senate official responsible for chemicals control legislation said on Thursday he soon will introduce a bill to force manufacturers to prove their products are safe before they enter commerce. Senator Frank Lautenberg (Democrat-New Jersey), said he will soon move legislation to completely overhaul the 34-year-old Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). In the first of long-anticipated hearings on TSCA reform, Lautenberg said that his still developing legislation - which he referred to as his “safer chemicals bill” - will correct broad shortcomings in the existing statute. “My safer chemicals bill will have a simple goal: force chemical makers to prove that their prod