Russia’s EuroChem launches 3rd fertilizer plant in Brazil

MOSCOW, Jun 5 (PRIME) -- Russian fertilizer producer EuroChem has launched a third fertilizer plant in Brazil that will produce up to 6,000 tonnes of fertilizers a day and will have storage capacities of up to 100,000 tonnes, the company said in a statement late on Tuesday.

“EuroChem Group AG…today announces the opening of a third new fertilizer blending plant in Brazil. The new 27,000–square meter facility at Araguari in Minas Gerais, a state in the south-eastern part of the country, is another step in the continued expansion of EuroChem’s subsidiary, Fertilizantes Tocantins (FTO), a major fertilizer distribution business in Brazil,” the company said.

The Araguari plant has direct railway connection to the port of Vitoria at the Atlantic coast of Brazil, which will ease transportation of EuroChem fertilizers produced in Europe to farmers in Brazil.

“The Araguari plant marks our entry into the south-eastern region of Brazil, a strategically important part of the country. After the opening of two other major plants within the past year, at Sinop and Catalao, our focus is now on the consolidation of these new markets, so we can continue to maintain our successful rate of growth,” the company said quoting FTO’s CEO, Jose Eduardo Motta.

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