CF Industries Holdings, Inc., the largest ammonia producer in the world, announced a $100 million project at its Yazoo City Complex aiming to drastically decrease carbon emissions.
The investment will build a CO2 dehydration and compression unit, which is expected to reduce carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere from the facility by up to 500,000 metric tons annually. Production with the lowered emissions is planned to begin at the Mississippi location in 2028.
“We are pleased to advance another significant decarbonization project that will keep CF Industries at the forefront of low-carbon ammonia production while also helping us achieve our 2030 emissions intensity reduction goal,” CF Industries Holdings President and CEO Tony Will said. “This decarbonization project also will increase the availability of nitrogen products with a lower-carbon intensity for customers focused on reducing the carbon footprint of their businesses.”
Once sequestration, or production with a lower carbon footprint, has begun, the Yazoo City Complex will be able to manufacture products with “a substantially lower carbon intensity than conventional ammonia production sites,” a statement from the company reads. Products manufactured at the Yazoo facility are used as fertilizer, as well as by the mining industry as a component of explosives.
The Yazoo project is the second major decarbonization project from CF Industries, with another underway at the company’s facility in Donaldsonville, Louisiana.
