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Aerial photo of Plant City Phosphate Complex

Aerial view of the Plant City Phosphate Complex

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Filtration - just one step in the manufacturing process

10608 Paul Buchman Highway
Plant City, Florida 33565
Phone 813-782-1591

CF Industries, Inc. can produce approximately 2.1 million tons of dry phosphate fertilizer products annually using its mining, rock beneficiation, chemical processing, and storage and shipping operations in Central Florida.

The company began phosphate operations in Florida in 1969, with the purchase of a phosphate complex (now idled) in Bartow. In 1971, it purchased a second manufacturing complex in Plant City.

The Florida operations include:

• A phosphate rock mine and beneficiation plant in Hardee County.

• A phosphate fertilizer manufacturing complex in Plant City.

A phosphate fertilizer storage and shipping complex at the Port of Tampa.

An ammonia terminal at the Port of Tampa.

These operations mine phosphate rock, beneficiate (upgrade) it, process it into phosphate fertilizer products, and ship those fertilizers to domestic and offshore customers. The operations produce diammonium phosphate (DAP) and monoammonium phosphate (MAP) fertilizers, the two most used phosphate products in world and U.S. markets. The company ships these products via rail, water, and truck, serving agricultural and other customers directly and via the company’s vast in-market distribution network.

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CF Industries, Inc. is well positioned for the future in the phosphate fertilizer industry, with 26 years of reserves at its mining operations, the most recently constructed phosphate rock mine and beneficiation plant in the U.S., one of the country’s largest integrated ammonium phosphate fertilizer complexes in the U.S., and efficient product shipping operations at both the Plant City complex and the Port of Tampa.