Aerial view of the Plant City Phosphate Complex
Filtration - just one step in the manufacturing process
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.
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CF Industries, Inc. is well positioned for the future in the phosphate fertilizer industry, with 23 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.