Plants: Central Florida Phosphate Operations
10608 Paul Buchman Highway
Plant City, Florida 33565
Phone 813-782-1591
CF Industries, Inc. can produce approximately 2.1 million tons of phosphate fertilizer products annually. The company began phosphate operations in Florida in 1969, with the purchase of a phosphate complex (now closed) in Bartow. In 1971, it purchased its existing manufacturing in Plant City – a complex which has been expanded significantly since then.
The Florida operations include:
- A phosphate rock mine and beneficiation plant in Hardee County.
- A phosphate fertilizer manufacturing complex in Plant City.
- A phosphate fertilizer storage and shipping complex at the Port of Tampa.
- An ammonia terminal at the Port of Tampa.
These operations mine phosphate rock, beneficiate (upgrade) it, process it into phosphate fertilizer products, and ship those products to domestic and international customers. Products include diammonium phosphate (DAP) and monoammonium phosphate (MAP), the two most used phosphate products in U.S. and world markets.
Central Florida Phosphate Operations
CF Industries is well position for the future in phosphate, with 23 years of reserves (14 fully permitted), the industry’s newest phosphate rock mine and beneficiation plant in the U.S., one of the country’s largest integrated ammonium phosphate fertilizer complexes, and efficient shipping operations at both the Plant City Complex and the Port of Tampa.