The CBH Group, Perth, Australia’s largest cooperative, announced the March 17 opening of its new Kwinana Fertilizer Facility, which it said will deliver significant benefits to Western Australian grain growers. The project marks the start of CBH’s liquid fertilizer business and expands its granular fertilizer capacity by 15,000 mt.
CBH is expected to commence outloading UAN and granular fertilizer to WA growers next month. Construction on the project began early last year (GM Jan. 21, 2022). Located adjacent to CBH’s Kwinana Grain Terminal, the new facility has capacity to store 32,000 mt of UAN and 55,000 mt of bulk granular fertilizer.
CBH Chief Marketing and Trading Officer Jason Craig said the facility enables the growth of the cooperative’s fertilizer business in line with grower demand. “CBH Fertilizer continues to experience year-on-year growth and outturned a record 204,000 mt last year – our best result since entering the market in 2015,” he said. “Increasing the scale of our Fertilizer business, and allowing for further expansion, reflects the ever-increasing demand for CBH fertilizer. It also supports CBH’s Strategy target of holding a 15% market share in Western Australia by 2033.”