CRU's Phosphates 2017

Date: 13-Mar-17 to 15-Mar-17
Location: Tampa Marriott Waterside Hotel & Marina / Tampa / United States
Category: Agriculture, Farming & Forestry Technology Conferences & Trade Fairs

CRU is delighted to return to Tampa, FL for Phosphates 2017 to celebrate the 10th event in the series. Florida is at the heart of the US phosphates sector and makes the ideal location for this annual gathering of the global phosphates industry.
With 400 participants attending the conference, the event is firmly established as the premier gathering for senior decision-makers representing the fertilizer, feed and industrial phosphates industries. Business leaders from producers, traders, engineering, technology and equipment providers, and consumers, meet at this annual event to engage in high-level networking, negotiate business contracts and share industry knowledge.

Key reasons to attend Phosphates 2017:
- Hear about the current and future supply of raw materials, intermediates and finished phosphates products
- Understand the changing dynamics in key demand regions affecting demand for products across the fertilizer, feed and industrial phosphates markets
- Learn about the latest project start-ups, expansions and shutdowns affecting supply
- Discover the latest technological advances through the expanded technical programme and showcase
- Network with over 400 producers, consumers, traders, market analysts, engineering and technical experts

Key themes:
* The Global Outlook: A View from Florida
* CRU VIEW – Global phosphates market overview and forecast
* View from the capital markets
* Regional Spotlights on Asia, (Beyond) China, India, Eurasia
* Agribusiness outlook: Realigning Commodity Markets and Supply Chains in 2017?
* Feed Markets
* Update on US Environmental regulation and permitting of phosphate operations
* Technical Innovation
* Industrial Markets
* Rock Phosphates
* Market dynamics
* Value added phosphate based fertilizer markets
* Mining & Beneficiation
* Phosphate plant developments
* Fertilizer finishing & granulation
* Environmental protection and sustainability

Exhibitors

Walt Precourt, Senior Vice President Phosphates, Mosaic, USA • Irina Evstigneeva, Director Corporate Finance & IR, Phosagro, Russia • Terry Barr, Senior Director of Industry Research, CoBank, USA • Roger Sims, Partner, Holland & Knight, USA • Michel Prud’homme, Senior Director, Production & International Trade, IFA (International Fertilizer Industry Association), France • Mike Nunn, Director, Elandsfontein, South Africa • Chris Lawson, Head of Phosphates, CRU, UK • Brian Campbell, Global Coordinator Phosphate Center of Excellence, Worley Parsons, Australia • Chris Tziolis, Managing Director, Verdant Minerals, Australia • Mike Gallagher, General Manager, Fertilizers, CRU, UK • Andy Jung, Director Market and Strategic Analysis, Mosaic, USA • Speaker TBC, TIMAB Roullier • Marc Sonveaux, Senior Process Manager, ECOPHOS s.a., Belgium • Doug Hoadley, Consultant (former Director, Agri-Business Analysis, CF Industries), USA • William Schipper, Director, Schipper Consulting, Netherlands • David Blake, VP Operations and Engineering, JDC Phosphates, USA • Malik Aqel, Head of Phosphoric Acid Process Group, thyssenKrupp, Germany • Atusa Amiri, Project Manager, Mosaic Fertilizer, LLC, USA •Dan Pelham, Project Manager, Hatch Associates Consultants Inc, USA • Speaker TBC, Aliphos • Isaac Zhao, Markets Editor China, CRU, China • Peter Heffernan, Senior Consultant, CRU, USA • Tim Lucks, Principal Consultant Geology and Project Management, SRK Consulting (UK) Ltd, UK • Stephen Hilakos, Process Engineer and Elton Curran, Process Engineer, Jacobs, USA • Paul Wiatr, Industry Development Manager, Nalco, USA • Avdhesh Mathur, President & CEO, NAQ Global Companies, Brazil • G M Patel, Technical Director, CIFC P Ltd, New Delhi (Rahimtula group of Companies), India • Vaughn Astley, President and CEO, Dr. Phosphate, USA • John Wing, President, John Wing PE, USA • Andrew Nuyianes, Process Consultant, Hatch Associates Consultants Inc, USA • Geoff Conroy, President, Aumund, USA • Rajendra Talamudupula, Lead Process Engineer, and Ron Derammelaere, Chief Technology Officer, Ausenco, USA • Richard Spaargaren, Sales Manager, Beumer / Eurosilo, USA • Henry Kurth, Minerals Consultant, Scantech International Pty Ltd, Australia • Céline Vaneeckhaute, Assistant Professor & Director BioEngine (Research Team on Green Process Engineering and Biorefineries), Université Laval, Canada • Johan Wallin, Global Product Manager, Fertilizer Products, Sandvik Materials Technology, Sweden • Richard Brooks, Control and Automation Manager, & John O’Toole, Project Manager, Hatch, USA • Wayne Moroz P.E., Global System Manager, Mersen, USA • Todd Hutchison, VP of Technology, Philadelphia Mixing Solutions, Ltd., USA • Thomas Dahlke, Technology Manager, Buss Chemtech AG, Switzerland • Ben Riley, Senior Marketing Manager, Nalco, USA Speaker TBC, Solex Termnal Science, Canada • Ed Weinberg, President, ESSRE Consulting, Inc., USA • Tom Baroody, President/CEO, K-Technologies, Inc., USA • Saqib Raza, Process Engineer – Nitro-phosphate Plant, Fatima Fertilizer Company Limited (FFL), Pakistan • Curtis Griffin, Process Engineering Supervisor, PegasusTSI, Inc., USA • Paul Cannon, Vice President, Microtrac, Inc., USA

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