Incitec Joins IPNI

Posted by Matt Hopkins|27 May 2008

Australia-based Incitec Pivot has joined the International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI), becoming an official full member during IPNI’s Board of Directors meeting in mid-May in Vienna, Austria, according to the IPNI web site.

Director and Chief Executive Officer Julian Segal and James Whiteside, general manager, Supply Chain and Trading, have been elected as the two representatives of the company who will serve on the IPNI Board of Directors. Incitec Pivot has headquarters in Southbank, Victoria, Australia, and operates a phosphate mine in Queensland as well as plants in Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria. The company has a distribution network ranging from North Queensland to Tasmania, and supplies more than half of Australia’s crop nutrient needs.

In addition to sales across eastern and southern Australia, Incitec exports fertilizer to overseas markets through its recently established trading arm, Southern Cross International.

Incitec joins other IPNI mwmbers Agrium Inc.; Arab Fertilizer Association; Arab Potash Co.; Belarusian Potash Co.; Bunge Fertilizantes S.A.; Canadian Fertilizer Institute; CF Industries Holdings, Inc.; Groupe OCP; International Fertilizer Industry Association (IFA); International Potash Institute; Intrepid Mining, LLC; K+S KALI GmbH; The Mosaic Company; PotashCorp; Saskferco; Simplot; Sinofert Holdings Ltd.; SQM; Terra Industries Inc.; The Fertilizer Institute (TFI); and Uralkali.