SUGAR LAND, Texas, Feb. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CVR Partners, LP
(NYSE: UAN), a master limited partnership and manufacturer of
ammonia and urea ammonium nitrate (UAN) solution fertilizer
products, announced today that Kevan A.
Vick, executive vice president and fertilizer general
manager for the general partner of CVR Partners, LP and CVR Energy,
has elected to retire after more than 35 years in the fertilizer
industry.
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Vick will continue to serve as an executive consultant to the
company for up to two years. His day-to-day responsibilities
will be assigned to other members of the company's recently
expanded executive team.
"Kevan Vick is one of the most
highly respected executives in the nitrogen fertilizer business,
known for both his technical expertise and his in-depth knowledge
of the commercial marketplace," said CVR Partners Chief Executive
Officer Byron Kelley. "We wish
him well in his retirement, and we are pleased we will continue to
have access to his industry insights through his new role as a
consultant to the company."
Prior to the initial public offering of CVR Energy in 2007, Vick
was named senior vice president of Coffeyville Resources Nitrogen
Fertilizers, LLC, upon its founding in 2004. Before joining
Coffeyville Resources, he was general manager of nitrogen
manufacturing for Farmland Industries, the previous owner of our
nitrogen fertilizer business. He also had served on the board
of directors of Farmland MissChem Limited in Trinidad and SF Phosphates.
Vick holds a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the
University of Kansas and is a licensed
professional engineer in Kansas,
Oklahoma and Iowa.
About CVR Partners, LP
Headquartered in Sugar Land,
Texas, with manufacturing facilities located in Coffeyville, Kan., CVR Partners, LP is a
Delaware limited partnership
focused primarily on the manufacture of nitrogen fertilizers. The
CVR Partners nitrogen fertilizer manufacturing facility is the only
operation in North America that
uses a petroleum coke gasification process to produce nitrogen
fertilizer and includes a 1,225 ton-per-day ammonia unit, a 2,025
ton-per-day urea ammonium nitrate unit, and a dual-train gasifier
complex having a capacity of 84 million standard cubic feet per day
of hydrogen.
SOURCE CVR Partners, LP