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Fortescue executive chairman Andrew Forrest in Port Hedland where Iron Bridge magnetite is loaded onto ships.

Clock ticks on Forrest’s green dream as Fortescue nears due dates

The deadline to launch five green hydrogen projects this year is closing, but the miner’s results reveal the commitment may not be as definitive as it appeared.

  • Peter Milne

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Incitec Pivot’s Jeanne Johns is leaving the fertiliser and explosives maker.

Incitec boss steps down amid questions about a planned company split

CEO Jeanne Johns is leaving after investor pressure over the company’s performance and questions about its plans to split into separate fertiliser and explosives businesses.

  • Simon Johanson
Jeanne Johns of Incitec Pivot.

Soaring gas prices send explosives maker out of east coast gas market

Incitec Pivot has stitched up a gas supply deal that will allow it to opt out of the volatile east coast gas market.

  • Simon Johanson
The Perdaman plant will be built on the Burrup Peninsula, home of the World Heritage nominated Murujuga rock art.

Pilbara gas-fuelled fertiliser plant gets $6b green light, but rock art concerns remain

Privately owned WA firm Perdaman has won the backing of a US investor to start building a urea plant large enough to supply almost all of Australia’s needs.

  • Peter Milne
Incitec Pivot boss Jeanne Johns: “The pandemic got people feeling vulnerable.”

Can ‘green’ ammonia solve Incitec Pivot’s emissions problem?

Fertiliser and explosives maker Incitec Pivot has committed to net zero by 2050, but admits it will take lots of work to get there.

  • Tim Boreham
Incitec extracts molecules from feedstock gas to create explosives for mining firms and fertilisers for farmers.

Incitec Pivot sells US ammonia plant for $2.5b and pushes ahead with $400m buyback

The ASX-listed explosives and fertiliser maker says the sale will give it the cash needed for a planned buyback and to pay down debt.

  • Simon Johanson
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Incitec extracts molecules from feedstock gas to create explosives for mining firms and fertilisers for farmers.

Incitec pivots from American plant as profits soar

Lower gas prices in North America are underpinning profits at explosives and fertiliser maker Incitec Pivot.

  • Simon Johanson
The Perdaman plant will be built on the Burrup Peninsula, home of the World Heritage nominated Murujuga rock art.

Pilbara gas plant price jumps $420 million as COVID hits supply chains

The cost to build Perdaman’s controversial fertiliser plant on WA’s Burrup Peninsula has jumped after Italian construction giant Saipem struck problems.

  • Peter Milne
Incitec Pivot CEO Jeanne Johns

Incitec Pivot to break up fertiliser, explosives businesses

The $7b Australian chemicals giant has revealed a plan to split off its mining explosives division from its fertiliser arm by the middle of next year.

  • Nick Toscano
Local manufacturing of diesel fuel additive AdBlue has ramped up to avert a supply crisis.

Trucking crisis averted by government deal to manufacture scarce fuel additive

A local company has ramped up production of a key fuel additive to stop an international shortage bringing the trucking industry to a grinding halt.

  • Mike Foley

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