Clock ticks on Forrest’s green dream as Fortescue nears due dates

Clock ticks on Forrest’s green dream as Fortescue nears due dates

The deadline to launch five green hydrogen projects this year is closing,but the miner’s results reveal the commitment may not be as definitive as it appeared.

  • byPeter Milne

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Incitec boss steps down amid questions about a planned company split

Incitec boss steps down amid questions about a planned company split

CEO Jeanne Johns is leaving after investor pressure over the company’s performance and questions about its plans to split into separate fertiliser and explosives businesses.

  • bySimon Johanson
Soaring gas prices send explosives maker out of east coast gas market

Soaring gas prices send explosives maker out of east coast gas market

Incitec Pivot has stitched up a gas supply deal that will allow it to opt out of the volatile east coast gas market.

  • bySimon Johanson
Pilbara gas-fuelled fertiliser plant gets $6b green light,but rock art concerns remain
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Pilbara gas-fuelled fertiliser plant gets $6b green light,but rock art concerns remain

Privately owned WA firm Perdaman has won the backing of a US investor to start building a urea plant large enough to supply almost all of Australia’s needs.

  • byPeter Milne
Can ‘green’ ammonia solve Incitec Pivot’s emissions problem?
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Can ‘green’ ammonia solve Incitec Pivot’s emissions problem?

Fertiliser and explosives maker Incitec Pivot has committed to net zero by 2050,but admits it will take lots of work to get there.

  • byTim Boreham
Incitec Pivot sells US ammonia plant for $2.5b and pushes ahead with $400m buyback

Incitec Pivot sells US ammonia plant for $2.5b and pushes ahead with $400m buyback

The ASX-listed explosives and fertiliser maker says the sale will give it the cash needed for a planned buyback and to pay down debt.

  • bySimon Johanson
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Incitec pivots from American plant as profits soar

Incitec pivots from American plant as profits soar

Lower gas prices in North America are underpinning profits at explosives and fertiliser maker Incitec Pivot.

  • bySimon Johanson
Pilbara gas plant price jumps $420 million as COVID hits supply chains

Pilbara gas plant price jumps $420 million as COVID hits supply chains

The cost to build Perdaman’s controversial fertiliser plant on WA’s Burrup Peninsula has jumped after Italian construction giant Saipem struck problems.

  • byPeter Milne
Incitec Pivot to break up fertiliser,explosives businesses

Incitec Pivot to break up fertiliser,explosives businesses

The $7b Australian chemicals giant has revealed a plan to split off its mining explosives division from its fertiliser arm by the middle of next year.

  • byNick Toscano
Trucking crisis averted by government deal to manufacture scarce fuel additive

Trucking crisis averted by government deal to manufacture scarce fuel additive

A local company has ramped up production of a key fuel additive to stop an international shortage bringing the trucking industry to a grinding halt.

  • byMike Foley
Australian fertiliser giant ‘working around the clock’ to help prevent AdBlue shortage

Australian fertiliser giant ‘working around the clock’ to help prevent AdBlue shortage

Fertiliser giant Incitec Pivot has struck a deal with the federal government to work on raising production of a key ingredient for the diesel additive AdBlue.

  • byNick Toscano