PHOSPHATE
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an optimal, environmental-friendly ener-
gy mix resulting in significant CO
2
emis-
sion reductions and achieving full energy
self-sufficiency."
The Analysts' Viewpoint
OCP's target of doubling its raw mate-
rials output and tripling its added-value
products capacity by 2025 has to be
seen in the context of its potential im-
pact on the wider phosphate industry.
E&MJ; asked representatives from two
leading commodities research firms how
the market is likely to fare over the next
few years.
From Fertecon, phosphate analyst Al-
berto Persona pointed out that the devel-
opment of new capacity in North Africa
(including at OCP) and the Middle East
comes at a time when demand in India,
a key import market, is still uncertain.
"India is still sitting comfortably on sig-
nificant stockpiles of phosphate fertiliz-
ers purchased during previous crop years,
and is in no rush to come to the market
in the short term, while at the same time
the government aims to revise the struc-
ture of payments for its fertilizer subsidy
scheme," he said.
"Although demand in the West, east-
ern Europe, Africa and Southeast Asia is
positive, this is not enough to compensate
for the sheer volume of new phosphate
One of the deep cone thickeners that FLSmidth designed to fit in between the phosphate concentrate slurry terminal
at Jorf Lasfar and one of OCP's phosphoric acid production units.