Potash, salt and fertiliser processing

Extraction, production, storage and filling of fertilisers
Phosphate extraction and processing
Flotation
Packaging
Pelleting

Issue 04/2026 Hosokawa Alpine meets Erciyes Mikron: Three decades of innovation and partnership

Part 3: Farewell tour brings Dietmar Alber to Istanbul and Ahmet Örgücü

Following company visits to Jordan Minerals in Amman and ASCOM Carbonate and Chemicals Manufacturing (ACCM) in Cairo (see AT MINERAL PROCESSING 02/2026 and 03/2026), the farewell tour of Dietmar Alber...

Issue 03/2026 Farewell tour takes Dietmar Alber to ACCM in Cairo

Calcium carbonate: Consistency is the key to success – Hosokawa Alpine and ACCM in the spotlight

As part of a farewell tour marking 40 years of technical and application-specific expertise, Dietmar Alber, accompanied by AT MINERAL PROCESSING editor Lukas Höpfner, travelled on to Cairo following a...

Issue 03/2026 Advanced technologies

REMA TIP TOP enhances efficiency in the potash and phosphate industries

The global demand for agricultural fertilizers is steadily increasing. Many companies in the potash and phosphate industries are looking for optimized processing methods and sustainable solutions to...

Rapid headframe replacement for Canada’s biggest potash mine

The new headframe was delivered in sections, assembled on site and installed in hours

Potash, a very fine mineral that contains potassium and is commonly used in food production, is in abundance in Saskatchewan/Canada.Mammoet has supported Ledcor with the construction of BHP’s new...

Issue 02/2026 Hosokawa Alpine: Technological progress and long-standing partnerships

Four decades of process engineering – the start of Dietmar Alber’s farewell tour – first stop at Jordan Minerals Est. in Amman

For almost four decades, Dietmar Alber has been travelling the world on behalf of Hosokawa Alpine. From Asia to the Middle East and on to North and South America, he has overseen projects, developed...

Issue 03/2024 Salt business 2024

CIECH maximizes production and establishes strong private brand

CIECH Group, one of the market leaders in the production of salt, soda ash and baking soda in the European Union, presented a positive outlook for 2024. The salt plant, which was commissioned in 2021...

Issue 09/2023

FLSmidth to deliver key beneficiation equipment to a phosphate mine

Following a long-standing relationship with Ma’aden, FLSmidth has been chosen to supply the key technologies and services for Ma’aden’s phosphate 3 phase 1 mine site in the Northern Province of Saudi...

The Ma’aden Waad Al Shamal Phosphate Company (MWSPC), based in Saudi Arabia, operates some of the largest and busiest fertilizer plants anywhere in the world. Take, for example, the Umm Wu’al...

Issue 01-02/2023 Secondary source of raw materials

Development of a new process to produce gypsum products from potash mining

The extraction of calcium sulphate products from potash mining can be one possibility to produce gypsum from a secondary source of raw materials in future. Work is currently underway on the...

Issue 04/2022 Process reliability in salt storage

Trouble-free hall loading with Tecdos drive technology from RUD

The Borth rock salt mine and salt works are located in Rheinberg, about 60 km from Düsseldorf. Between 7000 and 8000 tons of salt are mined and processed there every day. The plant is operated by K+S,...