Johnson Matthey and thyssenkrupp renew partnership for world class collaboration in ammonia production
22 December 2020
After collaborating successfully for 20 years and working together to deliver 21 projects, Johnson Matthey (JM), a global leader in sustainable technologies, and thyssenkrupp, a technology provider for world-scale ammonia plants, have signed an agreement to renew their collaboration around ammonia process and catalyst supply.
The partnership was founded two decades ago and sees thyssenkrupp exclusively use JM鈥檚 world class catalysts for its uhde庐 ammonia process built in that period. Through constant innovation, thyssenkrupp is licensor of the largest ammonia plants in the world. The uhde庐 ammonia technology has ultra low energy consumption and enables the highest production in a single-train unit, thus minimizing investment costs, and is suitable for small to large scale capacity plants of up to 5,000 metric tons per day. Thanks to this collaboration over the past two decades thyssenkrupp have built over 20 ammonia plants with a total capacity of 40,000 tonnes per day using JM catalysts, representing nearly 9% of global nitrogen fertilizer production, enough to feed 350 million people.
Dr. Sami Pelkonen, CEO of the Chemical and Process Technologies business unit at thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions: 鈥淲e are proud to continue our partnership with JM, which has seen so many successes such as the construction of the world鈥檚 largest ammonia plants employing the uhde庐 process, and several repeat orders from customers all around the world trusting in our technology, EPC competence and service capabilities.鈥�
鈥淲e are extremely proud of our ongoing partnership and are thrilled with the opportunity to continue to apply our deep knowledge in catalysis, pushing the boundaries in energy efficiency and higher capacity,鈥� said John Gordon, Managing Director, Johnson Matthey. 鈥淚t has been fantastic to see our world-class catalysts deliver optimum reliability with the lowest operating expense for the thyssenkrupp uhde庐 ammonia process for five of the world鈥檚 largest scale ammonia plants.鈥�