CF Industries - Plant City

Acid Plant Database September 16, 2010

Owner	CF Industries, Inc.
Location	10608 Paul Buchman Highway Plant City, Florida USA 33565
Background	CF Industries, Inc., a subsidiary of CF Industries Holdings, Inc., is one of North America’s largest manufacturers and distributors of nitrogen and phosphate fertilizer products. Founded in 1946 as a fertilizer brokerage operation by a group of regional agricultural cooperatives, CF Industries grew by expanding its distribution capabilities and diversifying into fertilizer manufacturing. Through 2002, the company operated as a typical supply cooperative. However, in 2003, in response to changing market conditions, it adopted a new business model that established financial performance, rather than the traditional cooperative charge of providing an assured supply of product to its owners, as its principal objective. In 2005, an Initial Public Offering completed the company’s transition and established CF Industries Holdings, Inc. as a public company. Its common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “CF.”
Website	www.cfindustries.com
Plant	Plant City
Plant	A	B	C	D
Coordinates*	28° 9' 58" N, 82° 8' 23" W	28° 9' 57" N, 82° 8' 22" W	28° 9' 58" N, 82° 8' 19" W	28° 9' 59" N, 82° 8' 18" W
Type of Plant	Sulphur Burning	Sulphur Burning	Sulphur Burning	Sulphur Burning
Gas Source	Elemental Sulphur	Elemental Sulphur	Elemental Sulphur	Elemental Sulphur
Plant Capacity	-	-	2750 STPD	2750 STPD
SA/DA	-	-	DA	DA
Emissions	-	-	SO₂: 3.5 lb/ton, 401 lb/h, 1757 ton/a Acid Mist: 0.10 lb/ton, 11 lb/h, 50 ton/a NOx: 0.12 lb/ton, 14 lb/h, 60 ton/a	SO₂: 3.5 lb/ton, 401 lb/h, 1757 ton/a Acid Mist: 0.10 lb/ton, 11 lb/h, 50 ton/a NOx: 0.12 lb/ton, 14 lb/h, 60 ton/a
Status	Operating	Operating	Operating	Operating
Year Built	-	-	-	-
Technology	-	-	-	-
Contractor	-	-	-	-
Remarks	-	-	-	-
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General	The Plant City phosphate fertilizer manufacturing plant converts the phosphate concentrate produced at the company’s Hardee County, Florida operation into approximately 2.1 million tons of phosphate fertilizer each year. Products are diammonium phosphate (DAP) and monoammonium phosphate (MAP). The Plant City facility, one of the largest integrated ammonium phosphate fertilizer complexes in the U.S., is ideally sized to the company’s mining and beneficiation operations. To produce phosphate fertilizer, it receives concentrate via unit train from Hardee County, as well as ammonia and sulfur via rail and truck from its Port of Tampa operations. The fertilizer manufacturing plant ships finished product via rail and truck to customers and to the company’s Port of Tampa warehouse for cross-Gulf and export sales.
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News	August 6, 2010 - CF Industries Holdings, Inc. today announced that it has agreed on the terms of a consent decree with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection involving compliance with the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). The agreement resolves a Notice of Violation (NOV) issued in 2005 that alleged that certain practices at the company's Plant City, Florida phosphate complex violated RCRA. The consent decree will not be final until it has been approved by a federal court. Under the terms of the agreement, the evolution of which has been described in previous disclosures, the company will pay a civil penalty of approximately $700,000, modify certain operating practices, undertake capital projects and accelerate approximately $55 million of funding for future closure, maintenance and monitoring activities. Additional funding may be required in future years. "We are pleased to have resolved this issue through a negotiated settlement that reaffirms our commitment to environmental stewardship," said Stephen R. Wilson, chairman, president and chief executive officer of CF Industries. "We have always sought to lead the industry in implementing practices that protect our natural resources, such as construction of our industry-first fully lined phosphogypsum stack system at Plant City." The 2005 NOV arose from the EPA's broad phosphate industry enforcement initiative. The company believes it was in the best interest of shareholders to negotiate this pioneering agreement in response to that initiative. In doing so, the company has not admitted any violation of law or regulation.

MTPD - Metric Tonne per Day STPD - Short Ton per Day
MTPA - Metric Tonne per Annum
SA - Single Absorption
DA - Double Absorption

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