Itafos Announces Resumption of Sulfuric Acid Production and Sales at Arraias
February 08 2022 - 10:06PM
Itafos Inc. (TSX-V: IFOS) (the “Company”) announced today the
resumption of sulfuric acid production and sales at Arraias. The
recommissioning of the previously idled sulfuric acid plant was
completed on schedule, within budget and with no reportable
environmental releases or recordable incidents.
“We are pleased to have safely and successfully
completed the recommissioning of the sulfuric acid plant at
Arraias. While we continue to evaluate strategic alternatives for
Arraias, we are opportunistically restarting the sulfuric acid
plant to supply market demand and deliver positive margins,” said
G. David Delaney, CEO of Itafos.
Arraias’ sulfuric acid plant has production
capacity of 220kt per year. The Company expects to operate the
sulfuric acid plant at Arraias with a base load capacity of
approximately 10.5kt per month. Arraias has secured short-term
sulfuric acid offtake agreements for its base load capacity with
pricing linked to sulfur benchmarks. Based on market demand, the
Company expects to opportunistically produce additional volumes of
sulfuric acid to be sold on the spot market.
The remainder of the infrastructure associated
with Arraias’ vertically integrated phosphate fertilizer business,
including its mine, beneficiation plant, acidulation plant and
granulation plant remain idled following best practices.
About Itafos
The Company is a phosphate and specialty
fertilizer company. The Company’s businesses and projects are as
follows:
- Conda – a vertically integrated
phosphate fertilizer business with production capacity of
approximately 550kt per year of monoammonium phosphate (“MAP”), MAP
with micronutrients (“MAP+”), superphosphoric acid (“SPA”),
merchant grade phosphoric acid (“MGA”) and ammonium polyphosphate
(“APP”) located in Idaho, US;
- Arraias – a vertically integrated
phosphate fertilizer business with production capacity of
approximately 500kt per year of single superphosphate (“SSP”), SSP
with micronutrients (“SSP+”) and approximately 40kt per year of
excess sulfuric acid (220kt per year gross sulfuric acid production
capacity) located in Tocantins, Brazil;
- Farim – a high-grade phosphate mine
project located in Farim, Guinea-Bissau;
- Santana – a vertically integrated
high-grade phosphate mine and fertilizer plant project located in
Pará, Brazil;
- Araxá – a vertically integrated
rare earth elements and niobium mine and extraction plant project
located in Minas Gerais, Brazil;
- Paris Hills – a phosphate mine
project located in Idaho, US (wind down in process); and
- Mantaro – a phosphate mine project
located in Junin, Peru (wind down in process).
The Company is a Delaware corporation that is
headquartered in Houston, TX. The Company’s shares trade on the TSX
Venture Exchange (“TSX-V”) under the ticker symbol “IFOS”. The
Company’s principal shareholder is CL Fertilizers Holding LLC
(“CLF”). CLF is an affiliate of Castlelake, L.P., a global private
investment firm.
For more information, or to join the Company’s
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please visit the Company’s website at www.itafos.com.
Forward-Looking Information
Certain information contained in this news
release constitutes forward-looking information. All information
other than information of historical fact is forward-looking
information. The use of any of the words “intend”, “anticipate”,
“plan”, “continue”, “estimate”, “expect”, “may”, “will”, “project”,
“should”, “would”, “believe”, “predict” and “potential” and similar
expressions are intended to identify forward-looking information.
This information involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties
and other factors that may cause actual results or events to differ
materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking
information. No assurance can be given that this information will
prove to be correct, including, without limitation, statements with
respect to the Company’s ability to supply sulfuric acid market
demand with production and sales of sulfuric acid from Arraias and
to deliver positive margins at Arraias. Such forward-looking
information included in this news release should not be unduly
relied upon.
Forward-looking information is subject to a
number of risks and other factors that could cause actual results
and events to vary materially from that anticipated by such
forward-looking information. Although the Company has attempted to
identify important factors that could cause actual results to
differ materially from those contained in forward-looking
statements, there may be other factors that cause results not to be
as anticipated, estimated or intended. Factors that may cause
actual results to differ materially from expected results described
in forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to,
those risk factors set out in the Company’s management’s discussion
and analysis and other disclosure documents available under the
Company’s profile at www.sedar.com and on the Company’s website at
www.itafos.com. Readers are cautioned that the foregoing list of
risks, uncertainties and assumptions are not exhaustive. The
forward-looking information included in this news release is
expressly qualified by this cautionary statement and is made as of
the date of this news release. The Company undertakes no obligation
to publicly update or revise any forward-looking information except
as required by applicable securities laws.
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PROVIDER (AS THAT TERM IS DEFINED IN THE POLICIES OF THE TSX-V)
ACCEPTS RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ADEQUACY OR ACCURACY OF THIS NEWS
RELEASE.
For further information, please contact:
Itafos Investor Relationsinvestor@itafos.comwww.itafos.com
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