Reports Archive

Using Renewable Resources - Woodfibre for soilless crops

ICL UK has been investing in the research and development of sustainable and high-quality alternatives to peat. ICL intends to use more products that support a circular economy, and has extended its growing media offerings with Fibagro Advance, a unique and superior peat alternative manufactured in the UK. This innovative and advanced woodfibre product is being used as a key component in professional growing media mixes and provides professional growers with a sustainable growing solution. Extracted peat from peatlands across[...]

Agricultural Knowledge Outreach

ICL is working with farmers to help them develop the knowledge needed to engage in sustainable agriculture, including plant nutrition and proper fertilization. This enables farmers to use the land they have more effectively and increase their yields. Growing more food on the land, while using balanced fertilizations brings forth, both increased food production and less of an environmental impact. In order to keep an abundant food supply during the global pandemic, ICL has invested in on-line webinars to farmers[...]

Resilient and Innovative Agriculture

Agriculture, worldwide, is facing unprecedented challenges. The world’s population is growing and expected to reach 9.8 billion by 2050. Meanwhile, food security is decreasing, as broad regions experience the effects of climate change and resource scarcity. ICL’s products and solutions are key to meeting future nutritional requirements. The agricultural community and its supply chain is facing the biggest challenge of our times. As the global population exceeds 7.5 billion, and is expected to reach 9.8 billion by 2050, an additional[...]

Tordell Stream as an Ecological Corridor

ICL Iberia has been preserving and further developing an ecological corridor at the Tordell Stream. This endeavor is designed to recover the stream’s environmental and social potential. The main project stage concluded in 2018. ICL Iberia continues to conduct maintenance activities to further preserve the area. Tordell is a seasonal stream that is a valuable resource in the Suria municipality. The stream separates a nearby urban area from the Suria mine’s facilities. The stream serves as an ecological corridor in[...]

Sdom Saltmarsh Lake

The Ashalim reservoir, located south of the ICL’s Dead Sea site, is a wet habitat, situated within a typical arid habitat. It is abundant with rich biological diversity. ICL Dead Sea, whose excavations in the region created this wet habitat, takes extra measures to preserve it, and invests in making this unique habitat accessible to the public. In the past, the Sdom salt flats area was a resting stop and habitat for migratory birds. Today, due to changes in the[...]

Ag Tech

AgTech is a rapidly evolving sector that aims to improve technology applications in order to increase the yield, growth, quality, and harvesting of crops. One of the key elements of ICL’s strategy is to develop advanced solutions for the agricultural sector by creating global leadership in Innovative Ag solutions and precision agriculture. ICL is leveraging its RD&I excellence in order to enhance its product pipeline and create new synergies between its extensive range of upstream and downstream products. ICL is[...]

Restoration of the Salt Deposits

ICL Iberia’s mine tailing management is far-reaching. Salt is a byproduct of mining potash in ICL Iberia’s underground mines. As a result, ICL Iberia has implemented numerous measures to control and manage its salt deposits at Suria and Sallent, including using the best available techniques (BAT – based on reference documents published by the European Commission), to manage salt deposits. ICL’s goal is to restore salt deposit sites and improve the water quality in a nearby river by preventing salt[...]

Controlled Release Fertilizers

ICL is a global leader in controlled release fertilizers. Plants can use nutrients from Controlled Release Fertilizers (CRFs) with great efficiency. Thanks to the high nutrient use efficiency of CRFs and their precise, localized application (at the plant’s root zone), growers worldwide can reduce their fertilizer usage and simultaneously achieve higher quality crops and yields with a lower environmental impact. The use of CRFs can reduce the total use of fertilizers by 20% to even 50% as well as significantly[...]

Advancing Food Security

ICL is an essential player in the global food supply chain, as such, it is dedicated to improving food security. ICL contributes to food security through a broad array of Ag Tech solutions, fertilizers, alternative proteins and other products that enable food to maintain a longer shelf life or reduce food waste. 2.1 By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food[...]

Polysulphate

ICL introduced a new multi-nutrient fertilizer, Polysulphate®, which is available to plants in its natural state. Available in its natural form, Polyhalite (marketed as Polysulphate® fertilizer) is UK-sourced and has a low carbon footprint. It delivers dependable high value, for low environmental impact. It is a natural, sustainable, dependable, organic fertilizer. Polysulphate® fertilizer comes from the Polyhalite layer of rock, over 1000m below the North Sea off the North Yorkshire coast in the UK. Deposited 260 million years ago, it lies 150-170m[...]