Impact Fertilisers

Infobox Company
company_name = Impact Fertilisers Pty Ltd
company_
company_type = Private Company
foundation = Australia
location = AUS Hobart, Tasmania
key_people = Ray Bender (Owner)
David Ford (CEO)
area_served =
industry = Manufacturing
products = Fertiliser
num_employees = 100+
parent =
| homepage = [http://www.impactfertilisers.com.au/ www.impactfertilisers.com.au]
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Impact Fetilisers is a tasmanian owned and operated company that has grown significantly since it was established in August 1994. Impact has developed to become Tasmania's market leader in the manufacture, import, distribution and sale of fertiliser products.

History

The Bender family spread the first tonne of bulk fertiliser from the EZ Fertiliser Plant (now Impact's Derwent Park Plant) in Tasmania in September 1950. Over the next 50 years Benders spread over 1 million tonnes of fertiliser from that plant. Although the spreading business was sold in 1987 the family could not stand by and let the Derwent Park Plant be sold by Zinifex (then Pasminco) and potentially closed down when it was placed on the market in 1994. The rest is history, with the support of Hi-Fert (WMC Fertilisers Pty Ltd), Benders created Impact Fertilisers, assembled a new management team, and expanded and reinvigorated their workforce. With their characteristic drive and enthusiasm they have turned it into a modern and progressive workforce.

Production

As Tasmania's only manufacturer of Single Superphosphate Impact Fertilisers has focussed on developing a reputation for quality in the State and National markets. The result of this drive for quality has seen the development of our double screened low moisture Premier Dried Superphosphate and our Award winning low cadmium SSP Envirophos. With the installation of our fertiliser drying plant in 2000, the dried products have achieved new benchmarks in quality.

Premier Dry is manufactured using a unique drying and triple screening process. It is produced by reacting naturally occurring phosphate rock with sulphuric acid. This process converts insoluble phosphates into forms more readily available to plants.

In Impact Fertilisers manufacturing process, blends of phosphate rocks from China, Morocco, Christmas Island, Togo and Israel are finely ground and fed into a mixer/den where measured quantities of phosphate rock, sulphuric acid and water are mixed.

The concentration of sulphuric acid, the ratio of acid to phosphate rock, the proportions of each type of rock and time spent in the mixer/den must all be controlled to ensure a quality product.

The reacted material is fed into a granulation drum and across a screening process to produce granulated superphosphate. The superphosphate is then stored for a period of 4-6 weeks to allow further reactions to occur within the product to maximise the proportion of available phosphate in Premier Dry. The cured superphosphate is double screened prior to drying. This product has improved storage, handling and transport characteristics.

Products

In addition to the locally manufactured Single Super Phosphate, Impact Fetilisers also import other fertiliser types

Locations

Impact's network of depots is the most extensive in Tasmania and provides locally accessible products and services to Tasmanian customers. Impact is the only company in Australia with state of the art fertiliser blending services and screening facilities at every depot.

* Derwent Park, Derwent Park Rd (Manufacturing Plant)
* Derwent Park, Lampton Ave (Head Office, Corporate Services)
* Brighton
* Longford
* Scottsdale
* Deloraine
* Devonport
* Burnie
* Sisters Creek
* Smithton
* King Island

External links

* [http://www.impactfertilisers.com.au Impact Fertilisers corporate website] – source of most material for this article