Brazil sulphur demand, imports to rise on projects

03 November 2008 16:56  [Source: ICIS news]

ROME (ICIS news)--Brazilian sulphur demand and imports are expected to rise by around 1 million tonnes/year each by 2012 due to phosphoric acid and phosphate fertilizer projects, said Vilalba Trierveiler, supply and logistics manager at Ultrafertil SA on Monday.

 

Speaking at the Sulphur 2008 conference, Trierveiler said that sulphur demand would grow to 3.2m tonnes in 2012 from 2.02m tonnes in 2007.

 

However, if all planned projects went on stream by 2012, then demand could rise to 4.3m tonnes.

 

Trierveiler noted that credit constraints meant that some projects would be delayed until after 2012.

 

Given that domestic sulphur production totalled just 160,000 tonnes and was not expected to increase, Trierveiler said import requirements would rise to 3.04m tonnes in 2012 from 2.08m tonnes in 2007.

 

Planned projects were expected to increase phosphoric acid production by 1.4m tonnes/year, diammonium phosphate (DAP) and monoammonium phosphate (MAP) production by 1.5m tonnes/year and triple superphosphate (TSP) production by 850,000 tonnes/year.

 

The Sulphur 2008 conference runs from 2-5 November in Rome, Italy.

 

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