While CF Industries Holdings Inc., Deerfield, Ill., is expecting to increase production at its Medicine Hat, Alba., facility, from its current turnaround, it reiterated to the Medicine Hat News that this will come from the optimization of existing capacity and not from additional capital investment or improvements at the facility. CF had earlier indicated its plans to increase production at Medicine Hat so as to take advantage of low natural gas prices.
CF reported on Aug. 8 (GM Aug. 10, p. 25) that it plans to increase ammonia supply at the company’s distribution terminal in Garner, Iowa, utilizing an additional 150,000 st/y from the Medicine Hat plant.