Reports Archive

Scientific Collaborations

ICL collaborates with farmers in the fields, testing, learning together and disseminating knowledge. Joining forces with farmers, governmental organizations, academia and scientists is necessary to improve agricultural methods and to create abundant, nutritious crops. International Potash Institute (IPI) International Potash Institute (IPI) is non-governmental and non-profit organisation with the mission to develop and promote balanced fertilisation. ICL is the leading member of the IPI and actively promotes its mission. ICL’s specialists are acting as IPI directors and coordinators. The coordinators[...]

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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[...]

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H2Flo

ICL has developed a line of products designed to manage and conserve water used for irrigation. H2Flo optimizes plant quality, allows better water availability in the root zone and helps conserve precious water resources. Applying with Precision - nutrients via water Fertigation delivers soluble fertilizers via irrigation systems to enhance crop production. Fertigation is a highly effective and flexible method that allows growers a precise application of nutrients, according to the crop’s demands. Fertilizer inputs through fertigation can be easily adapted[...]

ICL's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 virus, along with its significant health and economic repercussions, has created multiple challenges. ICL has implemented emergency pandemic policies and actions to ensure the health and safety of its employees and their families during these challenging times. In addition, as a leading fertilizer and food solutions provider, ICL’s business activity optimizes the timely supply of products, helping to maintain food security throughout the world even during the crisis. Taking Action - Maintaining ICL’s Operations and Safeguarding its Employees[...]

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[...]

Food Innovations & Alternative Proteins

ICL’s products for the food industry include functional food ingredients and phosphate additives, which provide texture and stability solutions for processed meat, poultry, seafood, dairy products, beverages and baked goods. These ingredient solutions, in addition to milk and whey proteins ICL produces, help nourish the world’s continuously growing population. ICL’s Food Specialties business has more than 75 years of experience in the food industry. Its diverse product portfolio consists of high-quality functional phosphate and ingredient systems that deliver buffering agents,[...]

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Aligning with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals

ICL views the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs) as guiding principles on its path to developing new products and finding new uses for existing products. ICL supports the UN SDGs and was among the first companies in the world to incorporate them into its business ideals, and use them to define its priorities in reporting on sustainability related activities. https://youtu.be/d7b_DoqcMocIn 2015, the United Nations updated its Millennium Goals to define a set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be[...]

Agricultural Research

Increasing food abundance and quality is a critical need, as is increasing efficiency in the agriculture sector. In its role as a major producer of fertilizers, ICL develops and disseminates knowledge regarding plant nutrition and proper fertilizing methods to farmers worldwide, helping to meet the challenges of the world’s growing population, decreasing arable land and the urgent need for greater environmental stewardship. Center for Plant Nutrition ICL established a Center for Fertilization and Plant Nutrition (CFPN). The CFPN is a[...]

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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[...]

Sustainable Solutions

ICL’s RD&I is looking to the UN’s SDGs as guiding principles for further development. The Company is focused on finding solutions that increase the positive global impact of ICL’s business - through its existing and new products. The SDGs serve as guiding principles in ICL’s quest for new products. This is especially true for SDG 2 – Zero Hunger. ICL has a part in ensuring global food security, from growing food with advanced fertilizers to producing alternative proteins and products[...]

Engaging Our Communities

Engaging Our Communities — Investing in Capabilities, Capacity and Future Talent ICL’s social engagement strategy is built on collaboration, meaningful partnerships, and shared values that shape and establish networks of social good within the communities we operate. By investing in entrepreneurship, innovation, excellence, and utilizing our products, resources, and expertise we build sustainable lasting partnerships, thus establishing networks that will be a driving force of social good. To achieve these goals our strategy is focused on four main pillars:EducationLocal CommunitiesAdvancing Food[...]

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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[...]

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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[...]

A message from ICL’s Chairman of the Board and ICL's President & CEO

It is with great satisfaction that we present our 2021 Corporate Responsibility (ESG) report. Our efforts and achievements are especially noteworthy in light of the stormy weather building up globally on many environmental, social, and economic fronts, including the global food and other industry-related markets ICL is involved with. We are living through a period of uncertainty that serves as a test to any organisation. However, ICL also recognizes this period of peril as a time to bring about a[...]