Fertiberia

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Fertiberia SA
legal form SA
Seat Madrid , SpainSpainSpain 
Number of employees 3,300 (as of 2017)
Branch fertilizer
Website www.grupofertiberia.com

Fertiberia is the largest fertilizer manufacturer in Spain with a market share of 75%. In 2000, he built the largest sulfuric acid plant in Europe with a capacity of 800,000 tonnes per year in Huelva . Other locations are in Palos de la Frontera , Puertollano , Sagunto and Tresona / Avilés .

In the industrial area of ​​Valle de Escombreras near Cartagena , the subsidiary Química del Estroncia produces strontium salts . The Algerian subsidiary Fertial operates two fertilizer plants in Annaba and Arzew . Together with Sonatrach , Fertiberia is building an ammonia plant with 1.1 million tpa ( Bahia Fertilizer ).

From the consolidation of various INI holdings, the Empresa Nacional de Fertilizantes, SA (Enfersa) was created in 1972. It was privatized at the end of 1989 and sold to Freeport in 1993 for a symbolic euro . In 1997 the Grupo Villar Mir took over Fertiberia. In February 2020, the company was sold to the private equity company Triton Partners .

Individual evidence

  1. a b INFOGRAFIAS WEB 2017. Accessed on May 25, 2020 .
  2. Vollrath Hopp : Fundamentals of chemical technology: for study and professional training . 4th edition. Wiley-VCH, 2001, ISBN 3-527-29998-X , pp. 293 .
  3. Química del Estroncio ( Memento of July 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  4. Who is Who: Fertial SPA Algeria
  5. USGS (Ed.): Minerals Yearbook, 2008, V. 1, Metals and Minerals . Government Printing Office, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4113-3015-3 ( Google Books ).
  6. Piqué subvencionó a una empresa del grupo Villar Mir, del que es consejero. In: El Confidencial . October 2, 2013, accessed July 26, 2016 .
  7. ^ Triton Funds Buy Fertiberia. In: CHEManager. February 18, 2020, accessed May 25, 2020 .