ARGUS Strategy Report: Ammonium Sulphate

Our brand-new strategy report focuses on ammonium sulphate — also referred to in the industry as amsul and AS — a commodity fertilizer used as a source of nitrogen and sulphur for crops (21N+24S).

With growing agronomic demand for ‘sulphur as a nutrient’, ammonium sulphate has a key place in this delivery, whether it is directly applied, blended or used as a feedstock in the production of more advanced N+S products or NPK+S.

Produced by the relatively simple reaction between common chemicals ammonia and sulphuric acid, ammonium sulphate emerges as a by-product of a wide variety of industrial processes — including caprolactam, coke-oven gas, flue-gas desulphurisation and many more — all of which are explored in this report, as are potential sources of supply.

Key market trends analysed

• The impact of current and future growth in Chinese caprolactam capacity
• Outlook for the premium for large-diameter product, for example large crystals
• Conversion of ammonium phosphate plants to synthetic ammonium sulphate
• Environmental and sustainability issues, including the circular economy, carbon footprints and EU legislation

Key benefits

• Understand the long-term trends for ammonium sulphate.
• Discover how producers and their marketing partners maximise the price achieved for their product.
• Develop more robust strategies to enter the ammonium sulphate and associated industries, and how to optimise trade.
• Enhance your modelling and reporting with the underlying data used by Argus consultants for their long-term strategic analysis and bespoke projects.

Key features

• Forecast pricing, production, consumption, capacity and trade data for 2021-34
• Historical pricing, production, consumption, capacity and trade data for 2010-20
• Description of all key production routes, and capacity by source:
• Synthetic production (‘on-purpose production’)
• Caprolactam (‘caprolactam grade’)
• Coke-oven gas (‘coking/steel grade’)
• Flue-gas desulphurisation (‘emissions/power grade’)
• Metals processing/extraction
• Methyl-methacrylate (‘MMA grade’)
• Acrylonitrile
• Other processes (for example, phosphogypsum, cyanuric acid, MEKO and other textile fibres)
• Specifications of competing sulphur-containing products
• Access to the expert consultants behind Argus’ long-term market analysis
• Over 100 pages, with more than 30 tables and almost 50 charts and figures