The shale gas boom in the region has helped bloom more than $1.5 billion in new business for Uhde Corp. of America, based in Bridgeville, PA.
The company is engineering the largest urea ammonium nitrate (UAN) fertilizer plant in the world in Donaldson, La. — one of three massive liquid fertilizer plant projects underway for Uhde.
It doesn’t make sense to build such a plant in Pennsylvania, near the supply, because transporting the fertilizer is expensive and carries risk, and pipelines are in place to efficiently move natural gas.
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