Tessenderlo Group’s Tessenderlo Kerley International (TKI) on Dec. 12 held a groundbreaking ceremony to start the construction works for its new liquid fertilizer plant at the Chemelot site in Geleen, the Netherlands. TKI is constructing a Thio-Sul® (ammonium thiosulfate/ATS) manufacturing plant, which will be used as a fertilizer for broadacre crops as well as arboricultural and vegetable crop cultivation. The plant is expected to be operational by mid-2024 and will employ approximately 20 people.
“With the new plant in Geleen, which will be our second Thio-Sul® plant in Europe, we are further expanding our local presence in the liquid fertilizer market for precision farming,” said TKI Executive Vice President Geert Gyselinck. “The Geleen branch will respond to the growing demand for liquid fertilizers from the European market. These fertilizers supplement sulfur nutrients and limit nitrogen losses.” In September 2017, TKI launched its first European plant for the production of Thio-Sul® in Rouen, France.
The engineering and construction of the plant are being undertaken by LGI (Le Gaz Intégral), who also constructed the Thio-Sul® plant n Rouen.
TKI said that together with Tessenderlo Kerley Fleuren, a tank storage and transshipment company for liquid products located in the Port of Cuijk, the Netherlands, that was acquired by Tessenderlo in first-half 2022, the new ATS plant will further strengthen TKI’s position in the Western European liquid fertilizer market and assist its sustainability goals by bringing liquid fertilizers closer to its customers.