Sweden’s Cinis Fertilizer to export first SOP vessel
Cinis Fertilizer, a Swedish company aiming to produce sustainable fertilizers from the pulp-and-paper and car-battery industries, is scheduled to ship its first SOP vessel this week from its new Ornskoldsvik facility in Sweden.
The Stroombank arrived at Kopmanholmen port in Sweden yesterday, according to vessel tracking data, and will load around 4,000t of water-soluble SOP for Dutch speciality producer Van Iperen. The vessel will be bound for Westdorpe near Terneuzen in the Netherlands, where Van Iperen will bag the product before moving it to Rotterdam for export to its customers. This first vessel contains SOP that is both on-specification as well as off-specification.
The 100,000 t/yr Ornskoldsvik plant was commissioned in early June and production at the plant is continuing to ramp up with the aim of reaching full capacity in the second half of the year. The plant will produce both standard and water-soluble SOP, and is the first of a variety of SOP projects that Cinis plans to develop.
Cinis shipped its first batch of water-soluble SOP from the plant by truck to Van Iperen in early July. Van Iperen has a 10-year agreement with Cinis to purchase all of the SOP produced at Cinis' first two plants, with a total capacity of 300,000 t/yr.
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