Itafos Announces Completion of Scheduled Plant Turnaround at Conda
July 01 2021 - 6:01PM
Itafos Inc. (TSX-V: IFOS) (the “Company”) announced today that
Conda completed its scheduled plant turnaround during June 2021 and
has returned to full production capacity.
“We are pleased to have completed our full scope plant
turnaround, which included certain activities that had been
deferred following our decision to conduct a reduced scope plant
turnaround in 2020 as part of our COVID-19 risk mitigation
measures. Our team at Conda continues to demonstrate a safety-first
approach to operational excellence and we look forward to
continuing to deliver quality phosphate fertilizer products to our
customers,” said Tim Vedder, General Manager of Conda.
Conda’s plant turnaround was completed on schedule and within
budget. The plant turnaround focused on inspection, testing, repair
and preventative maintenance of critical equipment, including
cleaning the phosphate rock reactor.
About Itafos
The Company is a phosphate and specialty fertilizer
platform with strategic businesses and projects located in key
fertilizer markets.
The Company’s businesses and projects are as follows:
- Conda – a vertically integrated phosphate fertilizer business
with production capacity of approximately 550kt per year of
monoammonium phosphate (“MAP”), MAP with micronutrients (“MAP+”),
superphosphoric acid (“SPA”), merchant grade phosphoric acid
(“MGA”) and ammonium polyphosphate (“APP”) located in Idaho,
US;
- Arraias – a vertically integrated phosphate fertilizer business
with production capacity of approximately 500kt per year of single
superphosphate (“SSP”), SSP with micronutrients (“SSP+”) and
approximately 40kt per year of excess sulfuric acid located in
Tocantins, Brazil;
- Farim – a high-grade phosphate mine project located in Farim,
Guinea-Bissau;
- Santana – a vertically integrated high-grade phosphate mine and
fertilizer plant project located in Pará, Brazil;
- Araxá – a vertically integrated rare earth elements and niobium
mine and extraction plant project located in Minas Gerais,
Brazil;
- Paris Hills – a high-grade phosphate mine project located in
Idaho, US; and
- Mantaro – a phosphate mine project located in Junin, Peru.
The Company is a Delaware corporation that is headquartered in
Houston, TX. The Company’s shares trade on the TSX-V under the
ticker symbol “IFOS”. The Company’s principal shareholder is CL
Fertilizers Holding LLC (“CLF”). CLF is an affiliate of Castlelake,
L.P., a global private investment firm.
For more information, or to join the Company’s mailing list to
receive notification of future news releases, please visit the
Company’s website at www.itafos.com.
Forward-Looking Information
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forward-looking information. All information other than information
of historical fact is forward-looking information. The use of any
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intended to identify forward-looking information. This information
involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors
that may cause actual results or events to differ materially from
those anticipated in such forward-looking information. No assurance
can be given that this information will prove to be correct and
such forward-looking information included in this news release
should not be unduly relied upon.
Forward-looking information is subject to a number of risks and
other factors that could cause actual results and events to vary
materially from that anticipated by such forward-looking
information. Although the Company has attempted to identify
important factors that could cause actual results to differ
materially from those contained in forward-looking statements,
there may be other factors that cause results not to be as
anticipated, estimated or intended. Factors that may cause actual
results to differ materially from expected results described in
forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, those
risk factors set out in the Company’s management’s discussion and
analysis and other disclosure documents available under the
Company’s profile at www.sedar.com and on the Company’s
website at www.itafos.com. Readers are cautioned that the foregoing
list of risks, uncertainties and assumptions are not exhaustive.
The forward-looking information included in this news release is
expressly qualified by this cautionary statement and is made as of
the date of this news release. The Company undertakes no obligation
to publicly update or revise any forward-looking information except
as required by applicable securities laws.
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TERM IS DEFINED IN THE POLICIES OF THE TSX-V) ACCEPTS
RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ADEQUACY OR ACCURACY OF THIS NEWS
RELEASE.
For further information, please contact:
Itafos Investor Relationsinvestor@itafos.comwww.itafos.com
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