Recent news on Urea

Arkema sells its Urea Formaldehyde Resins business to Hexion  -  25 May 2007
Business Wire (press release),Arkema (Paris:AKE) announces the sale to the company Hexion Specialty Chemicals of its Urea Formaldehyde Resins business, based on the Leuna site in Germany

Will sawdust harm my lawn?  -  25 May 2007
Dallas Morning News (subscription),I don't use products that contain urea, but it is the best choice of all the synthetic forms of nitrogen. It is used in small quantities in some products

Duncan report key to fertiliser sale  -  25 May 2007
Calcutta Telegraph,...permanent and 2000 ancillary workers. Moreover, the increased supply of urea to the farmers of the state would reduce the amount of fertiliser imported.

Kemira GrowHow to be sold to Norwegian Yara  -  25 May 2007
Helsingin Sanomat,...is the Norwegian Trade and Industry Ministry. Its core business is the production and marketing of nitrogen fertilizer such as urea and nitrates.

BUSINESS BULLETIN BOARD  -  25 May 2007
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,...system to inject urea into boilers to reduce nitrous and nitric oxide emissions. Holland Construction Services broke ground on a Walgreen Co. retail store

2008 Volkswagen Touareg  -  25 May 2007
Edmunds.com/Inside Line,Once the V6 TDI makes its US debut in the 2009 Touareg, it will have a urea-based diesel exhaust treatment that Volkswagen says will make the engine legal

Ballance lifts urea price  -  May 23, 2007
FarmNews.co.nz,23 May 2007 -- Over the past six months unprecedented worldwide demand for nitrogen fertilisers has been driving up the price of urea.

Petrochemistry: A second project of ammoniac and urea for ...  -  May 22, 2007
Echorouk Al Yaoumi,Sonatrach and the Omani group Suhail Bahwan Group Holding LLC (SBGH) have signed a partnership contract for the achievement of an ammoniac and urea complex

Centre looks at overseas tie-ups for fertilizer units  -  May 23, 2007
Livemint,...“For urea, we want to set up at least one plant with the capacity of one million tonnes in each of these countries and then ship that urea produced to India

JOINT VENTURE ABROAD TO MEET FUTURE FERTILISER DEMAND: SHRI PASWAN  -  May 23, 2007
Press Information Bureau (press release),Initial talks have been held for joint ventures for production of urea in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Nigeria, Egypt and Mozambique. The Government is considering

Fertiliser prices seem set to eventually climb further  -  May 23, 2007
Farmers Guardian,But urea products continued to increase between April and May to a top price of £195/tonne and £190/tonne for Urea prills in bags and bulk respectively,

Move to share urea cargo with deep-water port  -  May 15, 2007
Business Standard,The Cocanada Chamber of Commerce is moving towards sharing urea from the Kakinada anchorage port with the deep-water port, which is managed by Kakinada Sea

Nitrogen fertilizer situation and outlook  -  May 21, 2007
Delta Farm Press,Of utmost concern to many producers in Arkansas and the rest of the US is the dramatic rise in nitrogen fertilizer prices, particularly urea.

Kuwaiti PM to arrive today  -  May 23, 2007
Viet Nam News,...wooden furniture, computers, electronic equipment, pepper, footwear, ceramics and pottery to Kuwait, while importing oil, urea fertiliser and fabric.

Govt entering long-term deals to buy back urea  -  May 7, 2007
Economic Times,NEW DELHI: The government on Monday said it was entering into long-term buyback agreements for off-take of urea from companies set up abroad by domestic

Corn Response To Supplemental Nitrogen  -  May 21, 2007
CattleNetwork.com,In similar studies, significant yield responses in some fields to additional N (urea-ammonium nitrate solution--UAN) injected when corn was 1-foot in height

Urea scam: Turkish nationals make unique offer  -  May 3, 2007
NDTV.com,The two Turkish nationals accused in the Rs 133 crore urea scam of the 90s have been facing trial in India for the last ten years.

Urea import: Ombudsman to hear complaint against TCP  -  May 1, 2007
The News - International,The TCP, it said, wanted to throw out AMMT which had contracted to supply 50000 tonnes of urea at a realistic price of $225 per tonne and the corporation

Ethiopia: Bureau Secures Urea Through New Negotiations  -  May 1, 2007
AllAfrica.com,It has secured a large amount of the DAP fertilizer that it requires, although it is short 25000 quintals of Urea. To curb this problem in the wake of

Iran to be global player on urea, ammonia field  -  May 3, 2007
IranMania News,LONDON, May 3 (IranMania) - Iran will become the biggest urea and ammonia producer in the global markets, the Ghadir Petrochemical Company managing director

DoF may rope in GAIL to supply gas to closed urea units  -  Apr 27, 2007
Financial Express,NEW DELHI, APR 26: Department of fertilisers (DoF) has prepared a plan to provide gas connectivity to closed urea units at Sindri, Barauni, Gorakhpur,

Kenai Council hopes residents will tune in on TV  -  May 21, 2007
Kenai Peninsula Online,A proposal to appropriate $35000 to design a urea storage building at the airport attracted the attention of Eldridge. He said he thought the appropriation

Product Watch  -  May 17, 2007
Express Healthcare Management,The Urea Breath Test method (UBT) is based on the fact that the bacteria H. pylori produces an enzyme, urease, which catalyses the hydrolysis of the urea

Kuwait premier begins Vietnam visit  -  May 22, 2007
Thanh Nien Daily,...wooden furniture, computers, electronic equipment, pepper, footwear, ceramics and pottery to Kuwait, while importing oil, urea fertilizer, and fabric.

Prime Minister of Kuwait to pay official visit  -  May 21, 2007
VietNamNet Bridge,...wooden furniture, computers, electronic equipment, pepper, footwear, ceramics and pottery to Kuwait, while importing oil, urea fertiliser and fabric.

Fitch Downgrades FertiNitro Finance to 'CCC'; Rating Watch Negative  -  May 16, 2007
Business Wire (press release),Fitch estimates that as little as half (approximately 445797 metric tons) to as much as all (810540 metric tons) of Pequiven's urea offtake could be

Crop Market Update from Gleadell  -  May 18, 2007
Stackyard,The escalator clauses are expected to stick this year as rising freights are making Granular Urea options look expensive today. With a large Indian Urea

Increasing nitrogen prices add to cost of production  -  May 14, 2007
North Platte Bulletin,Lately, there’s been an 18 to 20 cent difference per pound of nitrogen between anhydrous ammonia compared to urea or urea ammonium nitrate, said Bob Klein,

DM launches campaign to confiscate harmful melamine dishes  -  May 14, 2007
AME Info (press release),He said the food lab survey, which covered all types of melamine dishes and food packaging materials, have revealed that some of the dishes do contain 'urea

Paper, fertiliser & sugar Fitch outlook for 2007  -  May 5, 2007
Financial Express,The pricing scheme for the third stage of the Group Concession Scheme (GCS) for urea, which was scheduled to begin on April 1, 2006, is expected to be

Centre announces Rs 2200 cr revival package for FACT  -  May 10, 2007
Financial Express,The consumption of fertilizers is increasing rapidly and the nation will have to import urea in the near future, he said. The demand for fertilizers is

Subsidy gain doesn’t really benefit farmers: House panel  -  May 14, 2007
Financial Express,According to the committee, the Centre’s policy to provide subsidies on food/seed, indigenous (urea) fertiliser, imported (urea fertiliser),

Melamine plates a health hazard  -  May 14, 2007
Gulf News,...“We have issued an official circular banning import and sale of some cheap melamine plate and cups containing urea formaldehyde, which is hazardous to

New Research Examines Durability of Unique Storage Tanks  -  May 16, 2007
ThePigSite.com,As you might know some of the agriculture products, such as urea, is actually known to be very corrosive and what it actually does is it basically starts

Meretek Diagnostics to Exhibit H. pylori Bacteria Test at 2007 DDW  -  May 16, 2007
Earthtimes.orgLAFAYETTE, Colo., May 16 -- Meretek Diagnostics, Inc. is exhibiting its BreathTek(TM) UBT (urea breath test) kit at the 2007 Digestive Disease Week ().

Think Green. Change the market with Nu Green  -  26 Apr 2007
PR Newswire (press release),Because the manufacturing process for Nu Green raw particleboard requires no urea-formaldehyde, it produces emissions that do not exceed normal outdoor

Food tests promise tough task for FDA  -  26 Apr 2007
USA TodayIn 1985, a Minnesota grain company illegally spiked wheat with urea, a nitrogen-rich chemical used in fertilizer and cattle feed.

PotashCorp Achieves Record Earnings in First Quarter  -  26 Apr 2007
Earthtimes.orgAt the end of February, urea imports into the US were 22 percent below prior-year levels, while at quarter end, producer inventories were 19 percent below

Global Ethanol Boom Benefits Natural Gas Investors  -  26 Apr 2007
StockInterview.com,About 96 percent of the corn planted in the United States depends on fertilizers, such as Anhydrous Ammonia (NH3), 28pct-Liquid Nitrogen, Urea and Ammonium

Agrium prepares to restart  -  26 Apr 2007
Kenai Peninsula Online,One of the complex’s two urea production plants and one of its two ammonia plants are close to start-up, but await completion of some repairs to broken

Urea scam: CBI yet to question defence witnesses  -  Apr 22, 2007
Times of India,NEW DELHI: The chargesheeted in the urea included B Sanjeeva Rao, nephew of Narasimha Rao, Prakash Yadav, son of then fertiliser minister Ram Lakhan Singh

Yara to establish fertiliser production JV with National Oil Corp ...  -  Apr 25, 2007
ABCmoney.co.uk,The Norwegian chemicals firm said the planned joint venture will be owned 50 pct by each partner, and will comprise the ammonia and urea plants located in

Fertiliser offtake posts 27.4pc decline  -  Apr 24, 2007
The News - International,In product terms, urea offtake was recorded at around 217 thousand tonnes, which exhibited a decline of 40.5 per cent while DAP sale was 72 thousand tonnes,

Production at Zia fertiliser factory stalled  -  Apr 24, 2007
The Daily Star,Urea production at Zia Fertilizer Company Limited remained suspended since Monday evening due to a leak in the factory's ammonia plant.

Ethiopia: Urea Stocks Hottest Commodity  -  Apr 17, 2007
AllAfrica.com,Having imported 250000qt of Urea fertilizer in the 2005/2006 budget year, the Union was only able to sell 16000qt. The story is different this year,

Nikiski fertilizer plant starts up again  -  Apr 24, 2007
KTVA,The plant -- which uses Cook Inlet gas to manufacture ammonia and urea -- was already operating at half capacity when it closed in late October as winter

Iran to operate urea, ammonia plant  -  Apr 14, 2007
PRESS TV,The world's largest plant to produce urea and ammonia will come onstream in Iran's southern energy zone of Assaluyeh in the near future.

Celebrating safe operation...  -  Apr 24, 2007
Gulf Daily News,The ammonia plant went on stream in 1985 and has since exported around 8.8 million tonnes of urea. Mr Jawahery said the latest achievement reflected the

Farms in south sniff fertiliser famine ahead  -  Apr 22, 2007
Financial Express,In Kerala alone, there is hardly any urea stock left in trader godowns. Trade sources told FE that most manufacturers of urea, muriate of potash and DAP

Closed Talcher urea plant gutted  -  Apr 8, 2007
The Statesman,Angul, April 8: A devastating fire broke out at the closed Talcher Urea plant on Friday which has underlined the need for an early decision by the Union

Abraaj to bid $1.3b for Egyptian Fertilizers  -  Apr 24, 2007
Middle East North Africa Financial Network,Fertilizers is one of the country's largest private sector fertilizer manufacturers and has an annual production capacity of 1.25 million tons of urea.

Fire destroys abandoned urea plant  -  Apr 7, 2007
India PRwire (Press Release),A major fire devastated an abandoned coal-based urea plant in Orissa's Angul district, with officials saying Saturday they were ignorant how the blaze

Govt to maintain buffer stock of urea  -  Apr 3, 2007
Hindu,New Delhi, April 4 (PTI): The government will maintain a buffer stock of urea of 50000 tonnes each in 12 states to avoid shortage of the fertiliser in the

Kansas Company EEMO Mandate for Urea, Sugar, Cement  -  Apr 7, 2007
Business Portal 24 (press release),...(MoU) covering a broad range collaboration and mandates including areas of fertilizer such as Urea, Sugar, HMS & Used Rail, including Agri Commodities.

Fire destroys abandoned urea plant  -  Apr 7, 2007
Indian Muslims,Angul (Orissa), April 7 (IANS) A major fire devastated an abandoned coal-based urea plant in Orissa's Angul district, with officials saying Saturday they

Reduce loss of ammonia gas from urea fertilizer  -  Mar 31, 2007
Bismarck Farm & Ranch Guide,More urea fertilizer (46-0-0) is applied to farm fields in Montana than all other nitrogen fertilizers combined, largely due to both cost and availability.

Ecuador plans to buy Venezuelan urea  -  Apr 5, 2007
El Universal,Ecuadorian Minister of Agriculture Carlos Vallejo has entrusted the National Development Bank with the purchase of 40000 tons of urea from Venezuela,

Fire destroys urea plant in Talcher  -  Apr 6, 2007
Newindpress (subscription),TALCHER: A major fire broke out in the coal based urea plant in Talcher, lying defunct since 2001, destroying heavy equipment and infrastructure badly.

Guide on managing urea fertilizer here  -  Mar 29, 2007
Bismarck Farm & Ranch Guide,Professors at three universities have cooperated to release a regional Extension publication entitled “Management of Urea Fertilizer to Minimize

Spangenberg: Fertilize lawn now for summer greenery  -  Apr 22, 2007
Kane County Chronicle,Specific sources include sulfur or polymer-coated urea, IBDU, and urea form, among others. Organic fertilizer products often are controlled-release;

BJP, Cong debate urea shortage  -  Mar 28, 2007
Financial Express,The debate led to chaotic scenes in the House. State chief minister Narendra Modi alleged that the Centre allotted urea lesser than that demanded by the state.

Fertiliser costs, demand continue rising  -  Apr 20, 2007
Viet Nam News,Demand for urea for the summer-autumn crop stood at about 430000 tonnes, with local producers only able churn out about 280000 tonnes, according to the Viet

Product Watch  -  Apr 19, 2007
Express Healthcare Management,The Urea Breath Test method (UBT) Is based on the fact that the bacteria H. pylori produces an enzyme, urease, which catalyzes the hydrolysis of the urea

3 NFL units to be modernised  -  Apr 21, 2007
Hindu,The Centre will be able to recover the subsidy in 17 to 18 months as the cost of urea production in these units will fall, helping the Government save

NFL plans global bids to shift fuel base from oil to gas  -  Apr 20, 2007
Financial Express,Currently, the cost of urea production comes to Rs 4000 crore per tonne and the company is expected to save about Rs 1000 per tonne after the project is

Punjab CM asks centre for adequate fertiliser supply  -  Apr 20, 2007
PunjabNewsline.com,Briefing Paswan, the Chief Minister informed that the total requirement of Urea and DAP for the Kharif season was 12.5 lac MT and 2.5 lac MT respectively.

EPA Guidelines Herald Revolution of Diesel Fuel: Cindy Skrzycki  -  Apr 10, 2007
BloombergApril 10 (Bloomberg) -- Change your oil according to your vehicle's maintenance schedule, and don't forget to fill the urea tank.

Give us adequate fertilisers: Badal to Paswan  -  Apr 20, 2007
Chandigarh Newsline,Badal said the total requirement of urea and diammonium phosphate (DAP) for the kharif season was 12.5 lakh mt and 2.5 lakh mt, respectively.

Iran to inaugurate Ghadir Petrochemical Complex by April 20  -  Apr 15, 2007
Tehran Times,Earlier the manager of the urea and ammoniac unit project had announced that the plant would come on stream before the end of current Iranian calendar year

US lists engine specs for a green drive  -  Apr 11, 2007
Economic Times,Change your oil according to your vehicle’s maintenance schedule, and don’t forget to fill the urea tank. Starting in 2010, owners of diesel-powered cars

Road Map to a Cleaner Diesel Drive  -  Apr 9, 2007
Washington Post,Starting in 2010, owners of diesel-powered cars and trucks may have to fill a supplementary tank with urea, an organic compound that fights nitrogen oxide

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