We’re proud of our history, and the legacy we’ve already established. But we’re even more excited by what’s ahead of us and the dynamic future that awaits.
At CF, our story is still being written.
2021
2020
Achieved the lowest year-end 12 month rolling average recordable incident rate in company's history at 0.48 incidents per 200,000 work hours.
2020
2018
Acquisition of all the outstanding units we did not already own in Terra Nitrogen Company, L.P. As a result, the company now owns 100 percent of its Verdigris Nitrogen Complex in Oklahoma.
2017
In 2017, the company produced 10.3 million tons of gross ammonia, a company-record.
2016
Completion of our capacity
expansion projects at our Donaldsonville,
Louisiana, and Port Neal, Iowa, nitrogen
complexes. We increased
our nitrogen capacity by more than 25
percent, and our Donaldsonville facility is the world’s largest nitrogen complex.
2016
Launch of our strategic venture with CHS,
Inc., the nation’s leading farmer-owned
cooperative. The venture includes a supply
agreement under which CHS is entitled to
purchase up to 1.7 million tons of
granular urea and UAN annually, as well as an equity
investment whereby CHS invested $2.8
billion in a CF subsidiary.
2016
CF partners with The Nature Conservancy on the 4R Plus program, a science-based approach to providing farmers with the knowledge and tools to minimize nutrient loss through emissions and runoff into adjacent water bodies while improving crop yields and soil health.
2015
Start-up of the new granular urea plant at
our Donaldsonville Nitrogen Complex.
This is the first plant to be commissioned
and started-up as part of CF’s major capacity
expansion projects in North America, and it is the
first new world-scale urea plant to be
completed in North America since 1998.
2015
Acquisition of the outstanding interests
we did not already own in the GrowHow
UK Limited joint venture. For the first
time, we expanded fully into the United
Kingdom market, where we operate as
CF Fertilisers UK Limited.
2014
Completion of the sale of our phosphate
mining and manufacturing operations
to the Mosaic Company for $1.4 billion.
With the sale, we became focused
exclusively on nitrogen products.
2013
Acquisition of all the outstanding interests
we did not already own in Canadian
Fertilizers, Ltd. (CFL). CFL is our Medicine
Hat (Alberta) Nitrogen Complex, the second
largest nitrogen plant in North America.
2010
Acquisition of Terra Industries Inc. The
acquisition brought into CF our Courtright
(Ontario), Port Neal (Iowa), Verdigris
(Oklahoma), Woodward (Oklahoma) and
Yazoo City (Mississippi) nitrogen complexes.
As a result, we became a nitrogen bellwether,
and we positioned ourselves for global success.
2005
Common stock of CF Industries Holdings,
Inc. (NYSE: CF) began trading on the
New York Stock Exchange on August 11.
2000
1998
Expansion of Donaldsonville Nitrogen
Complex complete. This project would
include the last world-scale urea plant
completed in North America for 17 years.
1976
1970
1966
The Donaldsonville Nitrogen Complex, today the world's largest, first produced ammonia in December of 1966. Construction of the plant was completed in 1969.
1965
1958
1955
1954
Company purchased interest in a nitrogen
manufacturing complex. The investment
marked our first step into manufacturing,
rather than just purchasing, fertilizer.