The strike at Mexico’s Grupo Fertinal’s Lazaro Cardenas phosphate plant is over, according to industry sources, though the company had not responded to inquiries at press time. The strike was reported to have begun on Aug. 26, and Fertinal declared force majeure soon thereafter (GM Sept. 2, p. 28).
The company was reported to be in the process of bringing the plant back to production. Fertinal has approximately 1. 2 million mt/y of DAP/MAP/TSP capacity at Lazara Cardenas, according to the Green Markets Global DAP/MAP Supply & Demand Model.