The growing demand for food is driving the need for more specialized fertilizer blends. However, bulk fertilizer blending comes with significant handling challenges such as maintaining blend stability and granular integrity, and minimizing blend segregation. In the November/December issue of World Fertilizer, Arkema-ArrMaz’s Lucas R. Moore, Global Director of Coatings Technology, dives into the physical and chemical incompatibilities that must be considered when producing complex fertilizer blends and how the right coating can help.
Today’s coatings can be custom-formulated to target specific goals and meet industry needs. With the appropriate coating, incompatible fertilizer blends can become manageable, thus opening the door to more complex, tailor-made blends. Innovative coatings developed with the 4R principles in mind can enhance fertilizer performance in the field by improving blend compatibility and uniformity, and reducing blend segregation.
