World’s Largest Chemical Company to Produce Less Ammonia, a Key Fertilizer Ingredient

World’s Largest Chemical Company to Produce Less Ammonia, a Key Fertilizer Ingredient
A man walks past tanks of German chemicals giant BASF at the company's headquarters in Ludwigshafen, western Germany, on Feb. 26, 2019. Uwe Anspach/DPA/AFP via Getty Images
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The world’s largest chemical company, Germany’s BASF, is set to further cut its production of ammonia—a key ingredient of fertilizer—amid soaring natural gas prices.

“We are reducing production at facilities that require large volumes of natural gas, such as ammonia plants,” BASF CEO Martin Brudermueller said in a July 27 media call after the release of the company’s second-quarter results.

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