Lifosa, Eurochem's phosphate plant in Lithuania, has now suspended production across all products, Argus understands.
The suspension could not be directly confirmed with the producer. But it follows reports at the end of July that Lifosa was preparing to come off line because of high raw material costs.
The plant has an annual capacity of 1mn t of DAP/MAP/NPS, 220,000t of MCP feed phosphate and 35,000t of tMAP.
News of the suspension helped to encourage suppliers to raise DAP prices across Europe in the final week of July. But demand is poor and offers at €870/t fca in Germany and Benelux are so far failing to attract interest. Morocco's OCP this week reported selling 8,000t of DAP/MAP at the equivalent of the low to mid-€850s/t fca west European seaports at current exchange rates.
