Business Areas

Incitec Pivot has four core business platforms: Manufacturing, Fertilisers, Explosives and Trading.

GLOBAL MANUFACTURING

IPL's manufacturing facilities produce a wide range of explosives, fertilisers and industrial chemicals.

As well as owning and operating 20 plants in the US, Canada, Australia, Mexico, Indonesia and Turkey, IPL has joint venture operations in South Africa, Malaysia, China and Australia.

IPL's initiating systems and assembly plants in the US, Mexico and Australia build detonators, boosters and cartridge explosives such as dynamite.

Manufacturing Fertilisers

Incitec Pivot manufactures a range of fertiliser inputs and products including ammonium phosphates, ammonia, urea, sulphuric acid and superphosphates at six manufacturing sites across eastern Australia. Incitec Pivot is the only domestic manufacturer of ammonium phosphates and urea.

In addition, Incitec Pivot manufactures various industrial chemical products used in water treatment, process manufacturing and other industrial applications.

IPL's biggest fertiliser plant in Australia is at Phosphate Hill, Queensland, where open-cut mining is used to extract phosphate rock. With an annual capacity of 900,000 tonnes, Phosphate Hill is uniquely positioned, combining world-class and low-cost manufacturing plants, its own phosphate rock reserve and ammonia production from gas sourced from long-term gas supply agreements. It is located 900 km west of Townsville where the Company operates export and warehouse facilities.

Phosphate Hill is complemented by a world-scale sulphuric acid plant at Mt Isa, 160 km to the north. Sulphuric acid is an essential ingredient in the manufacture of ammonium phosphates.

Incitec Pivot produces ammonia, urea and ammonium sulphate at its Gibson Island plant in Brisbane, south-east Queensland. Gibson Island has the capacity to manufacture 300,000 tonnes of ammonia, 280,000 tonnes of urea and 200,000 tonnes of ammonium sulphate, annually. The proximity of this plant to its domestic markets gives it a cost-competitive advantage, in addition to its long-term gas supply arrangements.

IPL also produces superphosphates at its Geelong and Portland plants. Superphosphate is the most commonly used fertiliser for improving pastures.

Manufacturing Explosives

Since the acquisition of Dyno Nobel in June 2008, Incitec Pivot has incorporated the former Dyno Nobel ammonium nitrate and initiating systems facilities into its Manufacturing Business.

Ammonium Nitrate (AN) plants take raw materials: nitrogen, natural gas, ammonia, oxygen and water to create ammonium nitrate (AN) (NH4NO3). Prilled AN or AN solution is the key raw material input to create explosives such as ammonium nitrate fuel oil (ANFO) and emulsion (water resistant explosives for use in wet boreholes). The Company's AN plants are located in America, Canada, Australia and Turkey.

Initiating Systems (IS) and assembly builds detonators, Nonel, Detcord, cartridge explosives (e.g. dynamite), boosters and assembles the products for customer specifications. IS facilities are located in the following countries America, Australia, Mexico, South Africa, Malaysia and China.

IPL is expanding its manufacturing of explosives in Australia. The company has committed close to A$1 billion to build a major ammonium nitrate plate at Moranbah in Central Queensland.

When completed in 2012, the plant, located in the heart of one of the world's largest coal mining provinces, will produce ammonium nitrate for the mining industry.

For an overview of the Company's Ammonium Nitrate and Initiating Systems manufacturing operations please click here.

DYNO NOBEL

Customers in the mining, quarry, construction, pipeline and geophysical exploration industries choose Dyno Nobel (www.dynonobel.com), IPL's explosives business, for its quality products, reliable service and technical expertise. Dyno Nobel is the market leader in North America - the largest explosives market in the world - and the second largest supplier in Australia - the third largest explosives market in the world.

Blasting is an essential step in extracting the mineral required to meet the world's demand for power, infrastructure and consumer goods. Dyno Nobel is renowned for its excellent safety performance and as a provider of innovative explosive products and services, which together deliver groundbreaking performance for its customers applying our cutting edge technologies (including DigiShot® Electronic Initiation System and TITAN® Bulk Emulsions) around the world. We also provide Value-In-Use solutions through our consulting division, DynoConsult.

Dyno Nobel explosive products and blasting solutions are provided through a nertwork of joint venture and independent distribution partners as well as Dyno Nobel retail sites. Dyno Nobel employs more than 3,000 people and has 34 manufacturing facilities in Australiam Canada, the US, Indonesia, Mexico, South America and Papua New Guinea.

For further information on Incitec Pivot's Dyno Nobel Explosives business, please visit www.dynonobel.com.

INCITEC PIVOT FERTILISERS

Incitec Pivot Fertilisers is Australia's largesst supplier of fertilisers, despatching around three million tonnes each year for use in the grain, cotton, pasture, dairy, sugar and horticulture industries.

Incitec Pivot Fertilisers (IPF) supports farmers in all of eastern Australia's major agricultural industries, from tropical fruit growers in northern Queensland to grain in South Australia. Incitec Pivot Fertisers supplies both Australian manufactured and imported fertilisers, in bulk and packages fertilser, and operates through a comprehensive netowrk of more than 300 distributors who sell the product to Australian farmers.

IPF's products are created for Australia conditions and subjected to testing through a comprehensive R&D investment program. Out products include our own brands such as BIG N®, EASY N™, Granulock®, Cal-Gran®, SuPerfect®, Green Urea™ and Gran-Am®. IPF is Fertcare accredited, promoting sustainable use of fertilisers and safe handling to all of our customers and farmers.

IPF recognises the critical importance of its relationships with the members of the communities in which it operates. Being part of the rural community, IPF directly employs a number of rural employees and support many others through its distribution network. IPF continues to support rural industries and communities through its community programs such as Help a Mate, industry sponsorships, staff participation in industry/community bodies and through the recently created Online Communities (Agronomy Community, Farmer Community and forthcoming Customer Community).

For more information on Incitec Pivot Fertilisers please visit www.incitecpivotfertilisers.com.au.

SOUTHERN CROSS INTERNATIONAL

Southern Cross International manages the sales of Industrial Chemicals and wholesale fertilser throughout Australia.

It is also responsible for the Company's investment in the trading joint venture, Quantum Fertilsers.

Quantum Fertilisers is an international trader of fertilsers and industrial chemical based in Hong Kong. It manages the sale of all of IPL's Australian manufactured products to export markets and assists in the global procurement of fertiliser, ammonium nitrate and raw materials to support Incitec Pivot Fertilisers and Dyno Nobel.

In addition to these activities for IPL, Quantum Fertilsers also trades in its own right, procuring product in the key manufacturing regions of China, North Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Europe, for sale to the major agricultural markets of Latin America, the subcontinent and Asia.

Established in 2008, Quantum Fertilisers now has offices in Hong Kong, Melbourne (Australia) Delhi (India), Savannah (USA) and Lausanne (Switzerland).

For more information on Quantum Fertilsers, please visit www.quatntumfertilisers.com.