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Urea Based Specialty FertilizerRobert Smulders

Vice President Innovation

The Global Challenge

Need for Better Fertilizers

Stamicarbon’s Solution

Agenda

New Beginnings: Return to Growth

The challenge

By 2050we will have

2 billionnew mouths to feed


The challenge


The challenge

• Population growing with 34% towards 2050

• Cereal demand increasing with 43% towards 2050

• A main driver for increasing cereal demand is

economic development

– Decrease of hunger

(today almost 1 billion hungry people)

– Increasing meat consumption

(conversion rate ca. 3 kg grain/kg meat)

FAO FOOD OUTLOOK 2050


Urea: world's most important fertilizer

• Nearly 60% of global nitrogen fertilizer is applied as urea

• Urea is not the most efficient fertilizer since less than

50% is taken up by the plant; the rest is lost

– to air by volatilization, and

– to surface- and ground water by run-off and leaching

Urea


Environmental issues are on the rise …

By 2050we will have

More than 50% of the

Chinese surface waters are dangerously contaminated


Planetary boundaries are under pressure ...

Planetary Boundaries, Stockholm Resilience Center, 2009

“We have already crossed

"planetary boundaries" that

could lead to abrupt/irreversible

environmental changes”


What needs to happen?

Increase global

productivity

Decrease

environmental

pressure

Improve nutrient

(nitrogen) use

efficiency

Respect

planetary

boundaries


Fertilizer Paradox: Largest Agri Business, Lowest R&D Investment

The largest and most

important input in global

agriculture gets the least

R&D investment!!

Global fertilizer market =

~300 billion USD =

>60% of total agri-business

PURSELL AGRI-TECH CONFIDENTIAL

Fertilizer Development 1900 - 2050

population

Mind the Gap

Ammonia

1909 BASF Urea

1922 BASF

MOP

1931 Carlsbad, NM

DAP

1959 TVA/IFDC

year

No new fertilizer

product development

Lack of fertilizer product development ...


The "Ideal Fertilizer"

Nutrient release is being

synchronized with the crop’s

nutrient requirements (Adapted from Lammel, 2005)


Controlled Release Urea

NEW POLYMER

COATED UREA 2.0


Partnership development

Technology

DevelopmentMarket

Development

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Targeted Market Segment

Commodity cash crops:

corn and wheat

Medium value added

cash crops

High

value

added

cash

crops

• Meeting future legislation

• Commodity cash crops

• Preventing seed kill

• Single application

• Safe high dosage

• Broad acreage

• Till and no-till

• Higher yield

• Low losses

• In-the-row

PCU 2.0


Modular design for coating facilities

Features:

• Semi-continuous operations

• 100 - 200 kt/annum capacity

• Close to end-user market

• Using existing logistics facilities


Future developments

Open Innovation Platform for Fertilizer Industry:

• Biodegradable coatings (prerequisite for EU)

• Incorporation of micro-nutrients and biologicals

• Incorporation of inhibitors (both urease and nitrification)

• Developing Seed-Core technology for micro-nutrients, biologicals and

inhibitors

• …

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