Sustainable specialty fertilizers

Despite the challenging situation, growers are continuing farming in Ukraine. In this connection, Tessenderlo Kerley has successfully introduced its liquid fertilizer, Thio-Sul® (ammonium thiosulfate solution), into the Ukrainian agriculture market. Thio-Sul® provides prolonged sulfur nutrition and increases the efficiency of nitrogen nutrition...

Mid-January, the final permits for the Tessenderlo Kerley Geleen Thio-Sul® production facility were granted and since then, work on the new plant has been running at full speed. As was the case with the construction of our Thio-Sul® plant in Rouen, France, which was completed in 2017, all of the construction works are being supervised by one main...

Tessenderlo Group is pleased to announce that it has signed an agreement to acquire the marketing and sales activities for ammonium thiosulfate (ATS) fertilizers produced by Esseco Srl (part of Esseco Group) in Trecate, Italy. These ATS fertilizers will be marketed by Tessenderlo Group’s business unit Tessenderlo Kerley International. Tessenderlo...

Today Tessenderlo Kerley International held a groundbreaking ceremony to start the construction works for its new liquid fertilizer plant at the Chemelot site in Geleen, the Netherlands. Tessenderlo Kerley International is constructing a Thio-Sul® (ammonium thiosulfate/ATS) manufacturing plant, which will be used as a fertilizer for broad-acre...

Discover how our Thio-Sul®, KTS® and CaTs® fertilizers have impacted berry quality and micronutrient uptake. They also helped solve specific problems in the blueberry and raspberry growing process, such as low temperatures, high pH and salinity in soil and water in this Moroccan berry farm.

Thanks to our barge Blandina, which is transporting hydrochloric acid from our Tessenderlo Kerley plant in Ham (Belgium) to the site of Kuhlmann Europe in Loos (France), we are ensuring 4,500 less truck deliveries each year. Therefore, this waterway transport approach means that approximately 1.6 million km of road travel is avoided each year. You...

See how the conversion of our furnaces leads to a cleaner energy source.

Régis, Lead Agronomy Manager of Tessenderlo Kerley, explains the challenges of a sodic soil at the corn fields in France, and how we can solve this in our new People on the Field video.

Calcium is an important element for plants in addition to nitrogen, potassium and phosphate. Often the amount of calcium in the soil is not a problem but the uptake can be limited. This is due to the presence of sulfate, carbonate and phosphate. Calcium compounds with these ions in fact dissolve poorly. Because of the divalent charge of calcium it...