Fertiliser producer and carbon dioxide supplier CF Fertilisers blames high gas prices as it permanently shuts one of the UK’s only two major facilities, leaving the food supply chain and farming open to “threats,” according to farmers and food trade organisations.
The company supplies 60 percent of the country’s CO2 production, including fertiliser for farmers. CO2 is a by-product of fertiliser manufacturing and is used in areas such as meat processing, in the slaughtering process, and the packaging of chilled foods, according to Just-Food. In a statement on June 8, CF Fertilisers wrote that it is now focusing its manufacturing operations in the UK at one site at the Billingham manufacturing facility in Teesside, closing its facility in Ince….