Producer
Yara International ASA
World's largest ammonia distributor via Yara Clean Ammonia; >15% global ammonia market share. Produces and trades ~17-18M MT of ammonia and nitrogen fertilizers annually. Revenue $13.9B in 2024. Plants across Norway (Herøya/Porsgrunn: 500,000 MT/yr), Germany (Brunsbüttel: 800,000 MT/yr), Australia (Pilbara: 850,000 MT/yr, ~5% of world merchant ammonia supply), and 15+ other countries. Also the world's largest multi-nutrient fertilizer producer in Western Europe. Pivoting to green ammonia: started Europe's largest electrolyzer at Herøya (Norway) in 2024 for renewable hydrogen/ammonia. Yara Clean Ammonia is positioning to supply ammonia as marine fuel.
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Goods downstream
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What they make
7 inputs Yara International ASA supplies
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chemical
DEF/AdBlue (Diesel Exhaust Fluid, 32.5% Urea Solution) →
energy
Natural Gas (Haber-Bosch Feedstock and Fuel) →
chemical
Anhydrous Ammonia (MAP / DAP Production) →
chemical
Ammonium Nitrate (AN) — Fertilizer / Mining Explosive →
chemical
Molten Salt Heat Transfer Fluid (NaNO2/NaNO3 for CSP Solar) →
chemical
Potassium Nitrate (KNO₃) — Specialty Fertilizer →
chemical
Urea Nitrogen Fertilizer (46-0-0) →
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Goods downstream
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Where they make it
7 facilities
Yara -- Le Havre, France (AN Production) →
FRLe Havre, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France · manufacturing_plant
Yara ammonium nitrate production at Le Havre. Yara is the largest Western AN producer globally. Le Havre is a major French chemical and industrial port. European AN production under cost pressure from high natural gas prices 2021-2023; several European AN plants curtailed or closed.
Yara Brunsbüttel Ammonia Plant — Germany →
DEBrunsbüttel, Schleswig-Holstein · manufacturing
800,000 MT/year ammonia capacity — Yara's largest single plant. Located at North Sea coast for import/export of ammonia and natural gas feedstock. Key European production hub and gateway for imported green ammonia.
Yara Herøya (Porsgrunn) Nitrogen Complex — Norway →
NOHerøya, Porsgrunn, Telemark · manufacturing
500,000 MT/year ammonia capacity. Also Europe's largest electrolyzer (24 MW, green hydrogen), started 2024. First commercial green ammonia production in Europe. Porsgrunn is Yara's historic home since founder Norsk Hydro built Norway's first nitrogen plant here in 1905, powered by Norwegian hydroelectric power — making Yara's origin as a green company predating modern green chemistry by a century.
Yara Pilbara Ammonia Plant — Western Australia →
AUKarratha, Western Australia · manufacturing
850,000 MT/year ammonia capacity (~5% of world merchant ammonia supply). Uses North West Shelf natural gas. Key Asia-Pacific export hub. Being studied for green ammonia transition using Pilbara solar and wind resources.
Yara Pilbara Fertilizers →
AUKarratha, Western Australia · ammonia production
Remote gas-to-ammonia export facility using Australian natural gas; ~0.85 Mt/year ammonia. Strategic clean ammonia development hub; targeted for hydrogen/clean ammonia export to Asia.
Yara Porsgrunn Complex →
NOPorsgrunn, Telemark, Norway · ammonia, urea, and nitrate production
Yara's flagship Norwegian production complex; integrated ammonia, urea, and calcium ammonium nitrate. Birthplace of Norwegian nitrogen industry (founded 1905 as Norsk Hydro). Reduced to 35% capacity in 2022 due to European gas price crisis.
Yara Sluiskil -- Ghent-Terneuzen Canal, Netherlands →
NLSluiskil, Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, Netherlands · manufacturing_plant
World's largest individual AdBlue/DEF production site and one of Europe's largest fertilizer complexes. Operational since 1929 on Ghent-Terneuzen Canal. Produces AdBlue, ammonia, nitric acid, and fertilizers. Yara global AdBlue capacity: 2.8 million tonnes/year; Sluiskil is the dominant single node.
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Business segments
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Ammonia Production & Yara Clean Ammonia (YCA)
30%Nitrogen Fertilizers (Urea, UAN, CAN, AN)
42%Phosphate & Multi-Nutrient Fertilizers
12%Industrial & Environmental Products
11%Clean Ammonia (Green & Blue)
5%
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Did you know2023
Yara International is the world's largest producer of ammonium nitrate (AN) — used simultaneously as crop fertilizer, mining explosive precursor (ANFO blasting agent), and the substance responsible for catastrophic industrial accidents. The 2020 Beirut port explosion (2,750 MT ammonium nitrate, 218 dead, $15B damage) and the 1947 Texas City disaster (581 dead) were both AN explosions. Yet 99% of bulk explosives used in mining worldwide are ANFO (ammonium nitrate + fuel oil) — produced directly from technical-grade AN. Yara produces both agricultural AN and technical-grade AN, with strict separation protocols. A fertilizer company is the upstream input supplier for virtually all mining explosives globally — the connection from crop nutrient to copper mine blast to lithium quarry explosive is: Yara ammonium nitrate.
Yara International ASA ↗Capacity2023
Yara is the world's largest producer of DEF (Diesel Exhaust Fluid, AdBlue in Europe) — holding ~28% of the global market. DEF is a 32.5% aqueous urea solution required by all modern diesel vehicles (Euro 6/EPA Tier 4 emissions standards) for SCR (selective catalytic reduction) NOx reduction. Without DEF, modern diesel trucks, buses, trains, and agricultural equipment are inoperable. In October 2021, China banned urea exports due to domestic coal and energy shortages — triggering an immediate Australian DEF shortage crisis. Australia depends almost entirely on imported urea/DEF; major logistics companies warned that within 5-8 weeks, Australian truck fleets would be unable to operate. Yara's Pilbara ammonia plant (WA) provided some buffer, but the crisis demonstrated: a Chinese fertilizer export ban can immobilize the road transport system of an entire country within weeks.
Yara International ASA ↗Incident2022
Yara International, the world's largest ammonia trader with >20% of globally traded ammonia, reduced its European production to 35% of normal capacity in August 2022 due to the natural gas price crisis. Yara CEO Svein Tore Holsether publicly stated that European ammonia plants were "operating at 35% capacity" — meaning 65% of the continent's Yara capacity was offline. This represented a direct link between Russian gas supply cuts and global food security.
Bloomberg ↗Origin2023
Yara International was spun off from Norsk Hydro in 2004 — the same parent as the aluminum company — inheriting Hydro's fertilizer and nitrogen chemistry division. Hydro had been in nitrogen fertilizers since 1905 (Norsk Hydro was founded to produce nitrogen fertilizer using Birkeland-Eyde atmospheric nitrogen fixation). Yara built its dominant position through aggressive acquisitions: Kemira Agro (Finland, 2002, pre-IPO), Saskferco (Canada, 2009), Bunge's Brazilian fertilizer assets (2010), Balderton (UK), and dozens of smaller deals. The Yara Clean Ammonia trading arm grew from Yara's legacy as a commodity ammonia shipper into a platform for green ammonia trading — positioning Yara as the infrastructure company for the future hydrogen/ammonia economy.
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