Swedish fertilizer producer Cinis Fertilizer AB announced on June 20 that the Swedish Land and Environment Court has granted an environmental permit for the construction of a 200,000 mt/y sulfate of potash (SOP) production facility in Bergsbyn, Skellefteå municipality, Sweden.
Construction of the facility is slated to begin in 2024, with fertilizer production planned in 2025. Cinis recycles waste salts from the Northvolt Ett electric car battery production facility in Skellefteå to produce SOP fertilizer.
Cinis said it has sold all of the SOP production from the Skellefteå facility and another 100,000 mt/y facility in Örnsköldsvik to Van Iperen, a Dutch producer of specialty fertilizer and biostimulants for fertigation and foliar application. Production at the Örnsköldsvik plant is scheduled to begin in 2024.
“It is very gratifying that Cinis Fertilizer receives an environmental permit also for our planned operations in Skellefteå,” said Jakob Liedberg, CEO of Cinis Fertilizer. “We have come a long way in the planning and will use the experience we gain from the ongoing establishment of our production facility in the municipality of Örnsköldsvik. With that knowledge, we can more efficiently build a facility twice as large in Skellefteå, near the electric vehicle battery manufacturer Northvolt.”