Fertilizer Coating Technologies for Improved Quality and Performance
What Are Fertilizer Coatings?
Fertilizer coatings are specialty materials applied to fertilizer granules to improve their physical properties, handling characteristics, and long-term performance.
Unlike fertilizer process aids, which are consumed during manufacturing, fertilizer coatings remain on the finished fertilizer product and continue protecting fertilizer quality during storage, transportation, blending, and application.
Why Fertilizer Coatings Matter
Fertilizers often pass through multiple handling, storage, transportation, and blending operations before reaching the grower. Throughout this journey, products can experience dust generation, moisture uptake, caking, segregation, and physical degradation.
Advanced coating technologies help manufacturers preserve fertilizer quality, improve handling characteristics, reduce product losses, and deliver more consistent field performance.
Arkema's Fertilizer Coating Technologies
Arkema develops customized fertilizer coating technologies designed to improve product quality, handling, storage stability, and fertilizer performance across a wide range of fertilizer chemistries. Our technologies include:
Benefits of Arkema Fertilizer Coatings
Arkema's fertilizer coating technologies help manufacturers achieve:
- Significant dust reduction
- Reduced fertilizer caking
- Improved moisture resistance
- Better flowability and handling
- Enhanced fertilizer quality and appearance
- Improved micronutrient blend stability
- Better product differentiation through coloring technologies
- Easier Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) compliance
- Better compatibility during blending and application
- Improved storage and transportation performance
Why Choose Arkema?
Arkema partners with fertilizer manufacturers worldwide to develop customized coating technologies that improve fertilizer quality, manufacturing efficiency, and product performance.
Our customers benefit from:
- Customized coating formulations
- Coating application expertise
- Laboratory testing and technical support
- Equipment recommendations
- Global manufacturing capabilities
- Decades of fertilizer industry experience
Partner with Arkema
Whether you're reducing dust, preventing caking, improving moisture resistance, or optimizing fertilizer quality, Arkema's technical experts are ready to help.
Contact our team to learn how Arkema's fertilizer coating technologies can improve your products and manufacturing operations.