Tessenderlo Kerley Inc. (TKI), a unit of the Brussels-based Tessenderlo Group, broke ground on Aug. 31 at its new liquid fertilizer plant in Defiance, Ohio, serving the eastern Great Lakes region (GM Dec. 31, 2021). The facility will focus on the company’s sulfur-based crop nutrition brands – Thio-Sul, KTS, and K-Row 23 – as well as sulfite chemistries for the industrial markets. The Tessenderlo Group said Aug. 25 that the plant is now expected to become operational in first-half 2024 instead of first-quarter 2024.
Tessenderlo Kerley International is slated to start construction of a new Thio-Sul plant in fourth-quarter 2022 in Geleen, The Netherlands, a push-back from the initial April 2022. It is now expected to be operational in first-quarter 2024, rather than second-quarter 2023.
Tessenderlo Group noted that its Violleau business, which is also a part of its Agro segment, is in the process of building a new organic fertilizer production plant at Tessenderlo’s Akiolis plant site in Venerolles in Aisne, France. The new production line is expected to be operational in second-quarter 2023.
In the meantime, Tessenderlo Group’s acquisition of the B.V. Fleuren Tankopslag, a tank storage and transshipment company (GM Dec. 31, 2021), closed in the second quarter and has been integrated into Tessenderlo Kerley International.