Fertiglobe (FERTIGLB), the strategic partnership between ADNOC and OCI, one of the world’s largest seaborne exporters of urea and ammonia combined and nitrogen fertilizer producer in the Middle East and North Africa, announced that it will produce Diesel Exhaust Fuel (DEF) from its Egyptian Fertilizer Company (EFC) facility in Egypt in Q4 2022, with trial shipments to be marketed by OCI in Europe.
DEF, also known as AdBlue in Europe, is a urea solution used to reduce environmentally harmful vehicle exhaust NOx emissions from diesel engines. Demand is supported by increasingly stricter emission regulations, making Europe a key market for AdBlue sales.
Fertiglobe has the capacity to produce 0.5 million tonnes of DEF at its facilities in Egypt and the UAE, with Fertil currently producing a small amount of DEF to serve local demand, and both facilities being able to quickly ramp up production.
Ahmed El-Hoshy, Chief Executive Officer of Fertiglobe, said: “Expanding our sales portfolio to include diesel exhaust fuel (DEF) is testament to our versatility in the prevailing tight markets and fits well within our sustainability, as well as our overall commercial strategy. As the largest nitrogen fertilizer and ammonia producer in MENA, Fertiglobe is well positioned to further diversify its offering into DEF, an industrial product with robust demand growth driven by its use to reduce harmful NOx emission from diesel engines, which are used every day across the world.” -TradeArabia News Service
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