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Fertilizers for Africa

Welcome to Suiso, a pioneering blue ammonia production complex, situated in Kriel, Mpumalanga. Established as a state-of-the-art facility, Suiso represents a groundbreaking approach to ammonia production. We harness cutting-edge technology and innovation to transform the traditional ammonia manufacturing process, significantly reducing environmental impact and paving the way for a greener tomorrow.

The Suiso concept was founded in 2019, by a group of four South African entrepreneurs, with a diverse range of expertise across various businesses. As part of their Owners Equity contribution, the sponsors of Suiso will contribute vital resource to the project including land (40 hectares), water rights, water infrastructure and capital. The funding is being allocated toward an array of early-stage engineering and project development costs. In addition to this, a sponsor owned business, 2Seam Coal, has agreed to a long-term supply of feedstock to the gasification plant that will sit alongside the Suiso owned ammonia plant.

The gasification plant produces syngas, which is the primary raw material used in the production of Ammonia. The gasification plant will be built, owned and operated by an independent 3rd party.

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750000

Tons of Ammonia Produce Annually

10

Billion Rand Capital Investment

3.5

Years of Project Build Program

1

Ton of fertilizer produced annually

Our Story

What makes us stand out from the crowd.

At Suiso, we are committed to revolutionizing fertilizer manufacturing through our cutting-edge ammonia production complex. Our state of the art facility, built in partnership with global technology leaders, specializes in manufacturing high-quality Calcium Ammonia Nitrate (CAN). With a focus on sustainability, the Suiso plant will include a Carbon Capture & Utilization module that will enable the facility to minimize waste and maximize efficiency. Our goal is to meet the demand for CAN and ammonia within key markets in Sub Sahara Africa, by distributing product through established channels. Join us as we shape the future of ammonia production for a prosperous and eco-friendly tomorrow.

Products

Nothing but the best

Key facts about the ammonia fertilizer markets:

  • The global ammonia market amounts to 191 million tons, of which just below 10% (20 million tons) is traded on the world market.
  • Global capacity expanded at a higher rate than demand over 2011-2015 due to significant new investments and has now reached 230 million tons with utilisation rates below 80%.
  • Growth of export-oriented capacity in Indonesia, Russia and Oman, and import substitution capacity in the US have led to more competition and a reshaping of trade flows (Trinidad and Indonesia looking for new markets and competing with the traditional suppliers).
  • New developments in feedstocks: higher coal and gas prices have caused sharp cost increases in many regions (notably Europe and China).
  • New challenges: “green ammonia” technologies could change the landscape in the next 10-20 years.

Urea:

  • The urea market is projected to grow by 26m tons between the period 2021-2035 to reach 209m tons
  • Urea will remain the nitrogen fertilizer of choice in key growth areas and as part of the broader challenges associated with addressing Food Security, in particular in Africa
  • Further, recent off-take data indicates that farmers have taken a consumption holiday on phosphates and potash
  • Currently 150m tons per annum comes through the port of Durban – product that is sourced from the Middle East. The Suiso facility is strategically located to offer logistically better price points than the Beira import corridor, making this an ideal import replacement opportunity
  • Argus Media forecast CFR Mombasa prices for granulated Urea to be in the USD350 to 420 range by 2030
  • The longer-term nominal Mombasa forecast shows a price range by 2035 of USD520 to USD525

Calcium Ammonia Nitrate (CAN):

  • CAN is speciality fertilizer. South Africa, Kenya and Tanzania are the top 3 consumers of CAN on the continent.
  • By 2025 the market will be 50m tons and forecast to grow to 70m tons in 2030
  • The plant will be strategically placed in South African to service contiguous surrounding countries
  • The Africa market expected to grow from 1.5m to 2.8m tons by 2030
  • As a consequence of BRICS trade relations South Africa is positioned to displace Brazil imports sourced from Holland. (Brazil has become a emerging CAN importer along with Argentina and Mexico)
  • CAN trades at a premium of up to USD175 per ton over Urea. This compared to a premium for granular product in mature markets being in the USD20 to 40 per ton range
  • Kenya imports 180,000 tons per annum and is ideally located for South African exporters
  • Due to high production costs of in Western Europe (USD680 per ton), Suiso will be able to compete in key markets such as Western Europe 7.8m ton production market as well as the 9.5m ton global market

Vendors

Our Established Partners

H&H

Holland & Hausberger is an innovative South African chemical process engineering company that is developing and rolling out small, medium, and large scale, distributed energy solutions internationally. These focus on sustainable, environmentally responsible combined primary energy and power solutions on an affordable and scalable basis.

Blue Energy

Blue Energy is a South African based business involved in the bio-mass industry. The team have vast experience in overseeing the development of large-scale chemical and commodity production facilities.

Blue Energy has been contracted by Suiso to oversee the technical feasibility work, that includes drafting of business requirements documents, engaging with international licensors and EPC partners, and local vendors involved in the provisioning of specialist services to the project.

Path Finder

Pathfinders is a JHB based corporate finance and advisory business focused on providing deal-making services targeting privately-owned mid-size and emerging growth businesses.

Advisory services: Strategy development, 5-year growth and execution plans, financial modelling, integrated reporting & use of technology to drive efficiencies and scale.

Corporate finance services: Capital structure and allocation, equity and debt raise, share disposals, on-boarding of strategic partners, drafting of business plans and investor memorandums.

The Plan

So What's Next

The objective of this plan is to establish a comprehensive and sustainable ammonia production and distribution complex. The complex will consist of a ammonia plant, a Calcium Ammonia Nitrate (CAN) plant, together with stateof-the-art storage logistics and trading capabilities.

The company has secured a for a strategic off-take and marketing agreement with one of Africa’s leading fertilizer distributors.

Our Team

Dedicated Team Members

Paul Anthony Erskine
Founder

Paul Erskine has been involved in coal-related business since the early 2000s. In 2005 he negotiated the take over and management buy-out of the Woestalleen Colliery, whereafter he was appointed Chief Operations Officer of Nucoal Mining (Pty) Ltd. Woestalleen Colliery, after the expansion of the washing plant and purchase of the Vuna Colliery / Zonnebloem Coal Reserve, became Nucoal Mining’s flagship operation comprising of 26Mt of reserves and processing capacity of 350,000t/m. Paul was instrumental in negotiating a five year middling’s product contract with Eskom; during which time Nucoal had in addition become a producer of 2.4Mt of exported coal. By 2009, the Woestalleen Colliery had more than 20Mt of reserves and a fully operational processing business but lacked the export allocation for its 2.4Mt of production capacity. Paul approached Coal of Africa, a company listed on AIM and JSE and by December 2009, Nucoal was successfully sold yielding its investors and shareholders a 1000% return.

Anton Mayberry
Head of Commercial

Anton started his career in corporate finance, and from there, joined a leading payment and card technology business that supplied product and services to banks, telco’s, retail and government. After an 8-year stint Anton decided to establish his own business focused on the import and personalization of gift card. In 2012 this business launched the first multi-brand gift-card mall in SA, representing a number of global leading digital-content brands in music, gaming, software, ride-share markets. As CEO Anton was responsible for establishing partner relationships with a number of global stakeholders and technology providers. In 2014 the business expanded into India, setting up offices in New Delhi. In 2017 Anton decided to exit the business and return to his passion, being strategy development, deal-making and corporate finance. Anton joined the Suiso team in a non-executive advisory capacity to assist the founder team develop the early-stage strategy for the business whilst taking on responsibility for overseeing much of the commercial portfolio and capital raise activities.

Caelan Erskine
Senior Vice President

Caelan's journey in the mining and energy sector began in 2017. His passion for the industry led him to gain hands-on experience, working closely with several major mining companies. Caelan has cultivated strong relationships with C-suite executives in a number of major mining companies, fostering a network of trust and cooperation. This network has not only opened doors for Suiso bus has also facilitated innovative partnerships and ventures within the industry.

Gerhard Potgieter
Head Engineer & Project Manager

Gerhard is a professional with more than 30 years extensive national and international experience in project management, engineering management in a diversity of companies and technologies from conceptual engineering to project implementation. As a member of the Executive Committee in several companies, Gerhard understands the business drivers and has delivered on Mega projects as can be seen from his past experience in a variety of projects over the years. He was previously the Engineering Director of Natref Refinery (Pty) Ltd and responsible for the Engineering delivery of the Natref Clean Fuels program for Natref at the inland refinery. This refinery is a joint shareholding between Total of France and Sasol Oil of South Africa.

Green Kite

Energy, Chemicals and Fertilizer Investments.

Green Kite Investments is a 100% black-women owned investment company focused on the broader energy, chemicals and fertilizer markets. The Green Kite principals Bassetsana Kumalo and Lindiwe Leketi are partners in various projects, most notably as the 51% shareholders 2Seam Coal.

Basetsana Julia Kumalo

Bassie is a former Miss South Africa (1994) and first runner up in the Miss World Pageant. She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of South Africa and Diploma in Marketing from Damelin College of Education. In 2011 she was honoured as a young global leader by the World Economic Forum. A Philanthropist at heart and together with her husband they have established the Romeo and Basetsana Kumalo Family Foundation, which focuses on the development of children especially those who have been orphaned by HIV/Aids. Bassie is a brand ambassador for a number of blue-chip companies in addition to sitting on the board of various organisations, namely, Lovelife, the Nelson Mandela Institute for Education and Rural Development, Unipalm Holdings, Businesswomen’s Association of South Africa, Spokesperson for Pampers UNICEF Tetanus campaign, Basetsana Woman Investment Holdings (Pty) Ltd, PHAB Property Holdings, Tswelopele Productions, Uzalile Investments, Travel with Flair and Tawana Resources.

Lindiwe Leketi

Lindiwe holds a Master’s Diploma in Human Resources Management from RAU University (1995) and a BA Social Work from UNITRA (1988). She has also completed all her MBA courses with a dissertation to complete to acquire her MBA from Milpark Business School. Lindiwe being an entrepreneur sits on the board of several organisations, however the closest to her heart is as trustee of the Agang Sechaba charity organisation, whose main objective is to improve the quality of life of disadvantaged communities.

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