Commercial & Markets Agenda

Regional supply and demand outlooks

11:15 Current status and future of the Chinese phosphate fertilizer industry

• Overview of the current position: Chinese capacity and production, import and export, fertilizer consumption
  Policy update: Reducing consumption and improving fertilizer efficiency
  2022 domestic phosphate market analysis
  Future outlook
  

Dr. Lee Bo, Vice Director of Information Department, China Phosphate and Compound Fertilizer Industry Association

11:45 An update on Mosaic and our primary markets: North America, Brazil, India and China
Andy Jung, Director, Market & Strategic Analysis, The Mosaic Company

12:15 Regional Focus: North America
Ryan Doyle, Director, US Sales, Itafos

Technical Agenda

Phosphoric acid operations

11:15 Use of crystal habit modifier to increase up to 40% production at the biggest Brazilian phosphoric acid plant
Mateus Freitas, Mosaic Fertilizantes

11:45 Addition of new ANDRITZ tilting pan filter at IMACID in Morocco to filter 1050 tons P2O5/day
Farooq Ellahi, Andritz AG

12:15 Nalco Water’s ScaleGuard™ antiscalant technology for Heat exchanger in phosphoric acid concentration at a North African fertilizer plant: A use case
Rajesh Raitani; Steven Paulson, Nalco Water, An Ecolab Company
Eihab Abdel Samie, NCIC

Commercial & Markets Agenda

Regional supply and demand insights

14:00 Supplier views on commercial and logistical challenges: Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Jordan
Hakan Goral, Vice Chairman, Toros Turkey

14:30 Phosphate rock market across Latin America countries: An update on the Bifox project 

• Brief overview of the phosphate fertilizer market in Latin America
• Phosphate rock use for direct application and processing across Southern Cone countries (Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina)
• The Bifox project in Caldera (Chile): current situation and commercial expansion plans for the near and medium run
  

Ernesto Lima, Chief Operations Officer, Bifox Limited

15:00 Developing Verdant Minerals’ Ammaroo Ammonium Phosphate fertilizer project
Chris Tziolis, CEO, Verdant Minerals

Technical Agenda

Phosphoric acid operations

14:00 Phosphoric acid concentration unit technology
Hadrien Leruth, Business Development Engineer, Prayon Technologies
Jan Tytgat, Process Engineering Manager, De Smet Agro

14:30 Economies of scale in large phosphoric acid plants
James Byrd, JESA

15:00 Review of Phosphoric Acid Production Technologies
Lyndsay Tran; Jayden Ladebruk; Amelia Parrenin, Hatch

Commercial & Markets Agenda

Phosphate rock market updates

16:00 Financing junior phosphates projects: What is the investment appetite?
Santhosh Seshadri, Research Analyst, Global Agribusiness and EV Battery materials, HSBC Securities and Capital Markets

16:30 Rock market dynamics and project updates
Tim Galusky, Project Director, Norge Mining


17:00 The long and rocky road to the start-up of a new phosphate rock mine by a junior mining company
John Sinden, Senior Partner, JSA Limited

Technical Agenda

Developments in phosphate beneficiation

16:00 Unlocking value - Verdant Minerals and TOMRA Sorting find a common approach
Jens-Michael Bergmann, TOMRA sorting GmbH
Michael Brauer, Verdant Minerals
Ewan Wingate, Bechtel

16:30 Novel surfactants to enhance collectors for the direct flotation of apatite
Lucas Moore, Colonial Chemical, Inc.

17:00 Presentation to be confirmed

Commercial & Markets Agenda

Exploring the role of phosphates in the energy transition: LFP Battery spotlight session

09:00 Analysing demand for lithium-iron-phosphate batteries in the electric vehicle sector
Yunjing Kinzel, Solution Manager Battery Insights, McKinsey & Company

09:30 The coming shortage in LFP grade phosphoric acid
• How do we define “LFP grade” phosphoric acid and What are the Criteria?
• Clean, traceable, ethical, consistent, secure, high quality, to ESG scale, with a low carbon footprint
• Compliancy with U.S. Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) guidelines. Local secure sourcing
• Directly integrated into the supply chains of the major north American electric vehicle manufacturers
• The technology client and its necessities. This cannot be an after-thought of the food or fertilizer business
• The need to work together and to understand and to be a fundamental part of the EV battery supply chain
John Passalacqua, CEO, First Phosphate

10:00 Avenira – Australia’s first integrated LFP battery cathode project
• Avenira – well positioned in the battery supply chain
• High purity TPA production for flexibility for high value markets
• Wonarah – Tier 1 high grade phosphate resource
• Sustainable practices and outcomes
Brett Clark, Chairman and CEO, Avenira

Technical Agenda

Advancing sustainability in the phosphate industry

09:00 Ash2®Phos: Closing the Phosphorus cycle - Value added recycling from incinerated sewage sludge
Therese Åström; Michael Meyer, EasyMining

09:30 Phosphogypsum – Closing the Gap?
Agnes von Garnier; Collin Bartlett; Hannes Storch, Metso Outotec

10:00 Sustainability – The trademark for Prayon processes
Hadrien Leruth, Prayon Technologies

Commercial & Markets Agenda

Specialty demand outlooks

11:00 Developments in the specialty and complex fertilizer markets
Philippe Rombaut, Managing Director, Agropolychim
Eli Amon, Growing Solutions President Deputy and Head of Commodities, ICL Group

11:30 Food grade phosphoric acid
Ajay Mahajan, CEO - Overseas Chemicals, Aditya Birla

12:00 Feed market update
Presenter to be confirmed

Technical Agenda

Developments in fertilization and nutrient use efficiency

11:00 Improving soil chemistry to increase nutrient use efficiency
Hunter Swisher, Phospholutions

11:30 Controlled-release fertilizers from phosphate glass-matrix: a new ecological approach to match nutrients release with plants demand
Tariq Labbilta; Mesnaoui Mohamed; Meddich Abdelilah, Cadi Ayyad University
Mohamed Ait-El-Mokhtar; Abouliatim Younes, Hassan II University
Khouloud Mehdi, OCP Group

12:00 Product design for customised specialty fertilizers
Jan Kirchhof, Glatt Ingenieurtechnik GmbH

Commercial & Markets Agenda

Supply chain and logistics

14:00 Effect of current shipping and transportation costs on phosphates prices
Plamen Natzkoff, Associate Director, Dry Bulk Commodities, MSI

14:30 Utilising local resources for decentralised phosphate production
Current phosphatic fertilizers are produced in only a few countries and poses risks of timely availability and price hikes with supply chain disruptions
Soils in sub-Saharan Africa are P deficient and many farmers cannot afford to apply optimum rates of fertilizers. Yet many of these countries have phosphate rock (PR) deposits
The current P fertilizer production requires huge financial investment and to be economically feasible, PR deposits must be large (last for 30-50 years). Hence restricted to fewer countries, making PR deposits in sub-Sarana Africa economically non-viable. The current production practice also generates wastes
Direct application of PR while limited to reactive PRs and acidic soils overcomes the above issues. Phosphate rock decision support system (https://prdss.ifdc.org/) helps identify conditions suitable for direct application of PR
The utility of direct application of PR is also enhanced by processes that improve plant availability of P. This process will allow previously non-viable PR deposits to produce P fertilizers while improving accessibility and affordability in sub-Saharan Africa
Dr. Upendra Singh, Vice President, Research, IFDC

Technical Agenda

Efficiency improvements

14:00 Phosphate-based fertilizer cooling comes full circle: The role thermal processing technologies are playing in improving the operational energy climate
Igor Makarenko, Solex Thermal Science

14:30 Beyond digitalisation: the next leap in plant efficiency
Hannes Storch, Metso Outotec