Green Fertiliser

Synthetic fertilisers and manures generate the equivalent of roughly 2.6bn tonnes of carbon dioxide per year representing 5% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions…

More than global aviation and shipping combined!

Green fertiliser can be produced by combining molecules of green ammonia with calcium nitrate and granulating it to produce a green, low emissions fertiliser for use in agriculture. By using renewable energy to produce green fertiliser, this reduces the carbon footprint of fertiliser by 80-90% (Yara).

Production of green fertiliser is vital to enhance food security for the world and for diversifying away from current hydrocarbon-based fertiliser production methods to decrease carbon emissions.

Calcium Ammonium Nitrate (CAN)

ATOME intends to produce green CAN at its 145MW Villeta, Paraguay project.

ATOME will therefore be the world’s first producer of 100% green CAN product on an industrial scale, producing up to 270,000 tonnes per year.  

CAN from Villeta is expected to be one the most cost competitive, zero carbon, fertiliser currently produced worldwide.

CAN is one of the fertilisers of choice in the food and agriculture industries worldwide with the EU the largest consumer in the world and South America the largest importer, all currently hydrocarbon derived

CAN has a higher efficiency and lower emissions compared to other nitrogen-based fertilisers. ATOME’s product  is expected to trade at a premium per ton of nitrogen.