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Arkema: Your Trusted Global Partner for Fertilizer Innovation

As a global leader in specialty surfactants for the fertilizer industry, Arkema delivers advanced coatings, additives, and process aids to help fertilizer producers enhance product quality, optimize production performance, and support sustainability.

With decades of experience and a strong global footprint, we collaborate closely with fertilizer producers to develop tailored solutions that address the unique challenges of modern fertilizer production—from manufacturing through field application.

Enhance Your Fertilizer Operations with Arkema's Specialized Solutions

At Arkema, we are dedicated to providing innovative solutions that optimize the efficiency, safety, and performance of fertilizer operations. Our advanced products, including Dustrol®, Fluidiram®, and Galoryl®, are designed to tackle the most common challenges in fertilizer handling, from dust control and flowability to caking and moisture protection. Explore how our tailored solutions can help you achieve better operational results and meet industry demands with confidence.

Excessive dust during fertilizer handling poses risks to safety, product integrity, and operational efficiency. Dustrol® offers a powerful solution to mitigate these challenges.

 

Benefits:
  • Enhanced Worker Safety: Reduces airborne dust for a safer work environment.
  • Regulatory Compliance: Meets industry standards for dust control.
  • Minimized Product Loss: Reduces fertilizer waste during storage and use.
  • Improved Handling: Makes fertilizer easier to handle with less dust.
  • Increased Efficiency: Boosts production capacity by minimizing dust-related issues.
Differentiators:
  • Versatile: Effective across all solid fertilizers, biosolids, and micronutrients.
  • Long-Lasting: Provides sustained dust reduction without frequent reapplication.
  • Eco-Friendly: Reduces the environmental impact of fertilizer dust.
  • Proven Performance: Delivers reliable dust control and enhances workplace safety.

Fertilizer caking and flowability issues can disrupt operations. Fluidiram® addresses these concerns effectively:

 

Benefits:
  • Prevents Caking: Controls caking during storage and shipping.
  • Reduces Pile Set: Limits pile set, ensuring ease of application.
  • Improved Flowability: Simplifies handling, storage, and transportation.
  • Versatile: Compatible with bulk blending and liquid systems.
  • Sustains Fertilizer Quality: Reduces caking for better nutrient release.
Differentiators:
  • Innovative Coating: Optimizes nutrient release while meeting environmental safety standards.
  • Versatile Application: Works with all solid fertilizer forms (granular, prilled, powdered).
  • Sustainability: Focuses on environmental safety and efficient fertilizer use.

Specifically designed for Low-Density Ammonium Nitrate (LDAN), Galoryl® provides comprehensive protection and performance enhancements:

 

Benefits:
  • Prevents Caking and Dusting: Disrupts caking mechanisms and reduces dust formation.
  • Moisture-Resistant Barrier: Forms a barrier to improve stability and reduce crystal bridging.
  • Improved Oil Absorption (Internal Additives): Enhances oil uptake for superior blasting performance.
  • Reduces Moisture Uptake by Up to 35%: Ensures long-lasting, free-flowing LDAN.
  • Extended Shelf Life: Increases shelf life by up to 4 times.
  • Neutral pH: No ammonia release, ensuring safe handling.
  • Cost-Efficient: Low dosage (1kg/tonne) for cost savings.
  • Compatible with Standard Equipment: Works seamlessly with blending and coating systems.
Differentiators:
  • No Ammonia Release: Neutral pH for safer handling.
  • Effective at Low Dosages: Only 1kg/tonne required.
  • Hydrophobic Barrier: Prevents caking, improving storage stability.
  • Customizable Formulations: Tailored to meet specific needs.
  • Extends Product Shelf Life by Up to 4x: Ensures superior performance over time.

Take Your Fertilizer Operations to the Next Level with Arkema

From dust control to anti-caking solutions, Arkema’s products optimize efficiency, safety, and performance across fertilizer operations. Let us help you tackle your fertilizer handling and application challenges with our industry-leading solutions.

Key Benefits:
  • Efficiency: Reduce operational downtime and costs.
  • Safety: Enhance workplace safety and regulatory compliance.
  • Performance: Improve product handling and application.

Connect with Us: For more information on how Arkema can elevate your fertilizer operations, reach out to our team of experts today. 

Optimize Your Fertilizer Operations with Arkema's Complete Service Solution

From field to formulation, Arkema delivers specialty chemical solutions backed by technical expertise and hands-on support to help you produce, store, and apply fertilizers more effectively.

We Don't Just Supply Chemicals - We Deliver End-to-End Support

At Arkema, we know that fertilizer production and handling present unique challenges—dust control, caking, flowability, and more. That’s why we go beyond surfactant supply to offer a comprehensive service package designed to help your operations run more efficiently, consistently, and safely.

Whether you're producing NPK blends, micronutrient granules, or biosolids, we work directly with your team to improve process performance and product quality every step of the way.

Optimize application, reduce variability, and boost performance.

 

Our application experts partner directly with you to evaluate and improve how our products are used in your process. Our support includes:
  • Application Surveys - A detailed review of chemical application and system conditions, with tailored recommendations to maximize effectiveness.
  • Process Reviews - We assess how your process and our chemical solutions work together—and help you implement simple changes that can significantly improve outcomes.
  • Field Trial Support - Design, implement, and analyze trial programs to validate performance under real-world and changing conditions.
  • Product Training - Customized training for your team to ensure proper use, safety, and maximum effectiveness of Arkema products.

Solve challenges and stay ahead with advanced testing and custom chemistry.

Our global lab network is built to diagnose fertilizer application issues and create targeted solutions. We offer:

 

  • Custom Formulations -Designed to accommodate changes in feedstock, climate, or product type—ensuring you always have the right solution.
  • Performance Testing - Including dust control testing, caking resistance, flowability, and more to ensure your fertilizers perform as expected in the field.
  • Analytical Testing - From particle surface analysis to gas chromatography, we use advanced tools to identify root causes and improve product behavior.

Prevent downtime and simplify supply with real-time inventory monitoring.

We install tank level sensors and relay systems to send data directly to Arkema’s production team—so you don’t have to worry about running out of product.
  • Automated Reordering - Inventory triggers are managed by Arkema to ensure product is always available when you need it.
  • Simplified Scheduling - We handle delivery planning internally to reduce your administrative burden and improve logistics.

Your formula, our facilities—tailored to your specifications.

With broad chemistry and production capabilities, Arkema offers custom toll manufacturing for clients who need a reliable, scalable partner. We work with:
  • Core Chemistries: Acylations, amidations, esterifications, sulfations, sulfonations, and more.
  • Production Capabilities: Blending, distillation, high/low pressure reactions, and centrifugation.

If you need a custom chemical manufactured to your exact specifications, we’ll work with you to develop a plan that meets quality, quantity, and timeline requirements.

Ensure proper application and storage for peak performance.

Chemical performance depends on correct delivery. That’s why we support:
  • Supplier Managed Inventory - Smart tank monitoring to automate reordering and improve storage efficiency.
  • Storage Equipment Guidance - Recommendations for safe and effective handling of surfactants and additives.
  • Application Equipment Design - Expert support for injection systems, coating applicators, polymer feed systems, and more.

Keep Your Fertilizer Performing at Its Best with Arkema's Dustrol®

Why Dust Matters
  • Fertilizer moves through production, storage, transport, and application.
  • Friction causes dust, which reduces quality and value.
  • Even 1% product loss can mean tons of fertilizer and lost revenue.
  • Dust can impact safety, handling efficiency, and overall profitability.
The Challenge:
  • Dust can lead to complaints, returns, and wasted time.
  • Producers need consistent quality to ensure reliability for farmers.
  • Without proper protection, dust diminishes product performance and market trust.
Our Solution — Dustrol®Anti-Dust
Why Dustrol® Works:

  • Proven global anti-dust technology, backed by decades of experience

  • Tested in state-of-the-art laboratories for real-world results

  • Applied during production to reduce airborne dust and product loss

Key Benefits:
  • Reduce Dust – minimize airborne particles during handling, storage, and transport
  • Protect Fertilizer Quality – maintain free-flowing, safe product
  • Safeguard Profitability – prevent costly product loss and customer complaints
Why Work With Us:
  • Customized anti-dust solutions for your production process
  • On-site support and technical guidance from our expert team
  • Partnership approach: we help you maintain quality and efficiency at every stage

Keep Fertilizers Free-Flowing Arkema's Galoryl® and Fluidiram®

Why It Matters

Caking is one of the most persistent challenges in fertilizer production. When granules stick together, quality drops, storage becomes difficult, and profitability is impacted. Reliable anti-caking solutions ensure fertilizers remain free-flowing, easy to handle, and effective in the field.

The Challenge:

  • Fertilizers absorb moisture during storage and transport.

  • Granules clump together, creating hard lumps that slow operations.

  • Reduced product quality leads to customer complaints, inefficiency, and lost value.
Our Solutions
Arkema Specialty Surfactants goes beyond coatings with innovative solutions:

  • Galoryl® – Hydrophobic protection that minimizes moisture uptake, preventing caking before it starts.

  • Fluidiram® – Reliable additive technology that keeps fertilizers free-flowing and easy to handle across storage, transport, and application.

Key Benefits:
  • Maintains fertilizer flowability and product quality
  • Reduces handling and operational challenges
  • Extends shelf life and usability in the field
  • Protects profitability by reducing product loss
Why Work With Us:

With decades of fertilizer expertise and a global support network, Arkema delivers more than chemistry — we deliver partnership. From laboratory testing to on-site application support, we tailor solutions that safeguard your product, your reputation, and your bottom line.

Partner with Arkema Today

Let’s optimize your fertilizer production—together.

Work with a trusted partner who delivers advanced coatings, additives, and process aids that drive better fertilizer quality, higher efficiency, and greater sustainability.

  • Hands-on Application Expertise - We’re at your plant, not just on the phone.
  • Tailored Solutions - From custom formulations to equipment support, our solutions evolve with your needs.
  • Proven Performance - Backed by testing, data, and field results across a global customer base.
  • Full-Service Simplicity - Fewer vendors, fewer delays—one integrated partner.

Contact our experts now to explore how Arkema’s Specialty Surfactants can help you stay ahead in today’s competitive fertilizer market.

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