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ICL Group Ltd.

ICL Group Ltd. (Hebrew: איי.סי. אל. גרופ בע"מ) (formerly Israel Chemicals Ltd., ICL)[8] is a multi-national manufacturing concern that develops, produces and markets fertilizers, metals and other special-purpose chemical products. ICL serves primarily three markets: agriculture, food and engineered materials.[9] ICL produces approximately a third of the world's bromine, and is the world's sixth-largest potash producer.[10] It is a manufacturer of specialty fertilizers and specialty phosphates, flame retardants and water treatment solutions.[11]

ICL is majority controlled by the Israel Corporation, one of the largest Israeli conglomerates. In addition to the Dead Sea Works, Israel Chemicals mines phosphates in the Negev desert.[12]

ICL Group serves customers in Asia.[13]

The company's share is a dual stock traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange since 1991 and on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol ICL, and is part of the Tel Aviv 35 Index.

Operations and business

90% of ICL's sales are exports. Through its subsidiaries, ICL produces 35% of world's bromine, 13% of the world's potash (excluding US-Canada cross-border trade), 9% of the western world's magnesium and 3% of the world's phosphate rock, (excluding US-Canada cross-border trade).[14]

ICL exports fertilizers to Europe and to numerous specialty chemical market segments. In Israel, ICL is the largest supplier of fertilizers and chemicals, as well as one of Israel's largest companies.

60% of ICL's raw products (minerals) are excavated in Israel. ICL also owns and operates underground mines in Spain, United Kingdom (North Yorkshire), China, the United States and South America. Also, in Ethiopia at Danakil mine, Afar Regional State, purchased from Allana Potash Corporation.

ICL North American headquarters are in Creve Coeur, Missouri.[15]

Polysulphate

Polysulphate is a brand name for polyhalite fertilizer products produced for farming, turf, and horticulture. The only mined source is a polyhalite seam that lies 150-170 m beneath the potash seam at Boulby Mine, England.[16]

Food business

ICL is active in the market for plant-based meat alternatives and invested $20 million in October 2019 to expand its manufacturing capacity and R&D base.[17]

In December 2021, ICL announced the grand opening of a 10,000 square foot alternative protein production facility in St. Louis, Missouri, previously owned by Bayer.[18]

Lithium iron phosphate

ICL began developing a new plant in St. Louis to process lithium iron phosphate in 2023. In 2024, ICL received US federal infrastructure grant funds to build a larger plant in north St. Louis.[19] ICL chose to cancel the project after the Trump administration cut the grant in 2025. A similar project planned in Spain was also cancelled.[20]

White phosphorus

ICL supplies white phosphorus munition to the United States Armed Forces and commercial customers, such as Israel.[21] The largest production facility is in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, as a collaboration with Pine Bluff Arsenal, ICL, and Bayer.[22]

Among 2025 May Day protests was a demonstration outside ICL Iberia in Manresa on account of white phosphorus attacks on civilians in Gaza, as well as extraction of water from Manresa municipality. Protesters called for a boycott of ICL.[23] Humanitarian organizations Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have documented Israeli use of white phosphorus over dense civilian areas in the Gaza war, arguing that it constitutes indiscriminate attacks and prohibited by the Geneva Conventions as a war crime.[24][25]

Financials

In April 2009, the company was said to be considering a bond offering to raise 500 million shekels ($122 million).[26]

ICL announced in September 2018 that it was launching a tender to buy back $800 million worth of 4.5 percent debt due in 2024 sold to bondholders in 2014.[27] The bonds of the new offer are running for 20 to 30 years.[27]

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References

  1. Q4 2021 results ICL, 13 February 2021, retrieved 12 December 2022^
  2. New Israel Chemicals CEO: Big shoes to fill Haaretz, 20 August 2012^
  3. ISRAEL insider: Nir Gilad^
  4. Akiva Mozes: Executive Profile & Biography Bloomberg Businessweek, retrieved 22 September 2013^
  5. Israel Chemicals – ownership Data retrieved 25 September 2013^
  6. Israel Chemicals Q3 report Calcalist, Yedioth Ahronoth Group, 13 November 2013, retrieved 13 November 2013^
  7. ICL. ICL Announces That Johanan Locker Will Conclude his Tenure as Chairman retrieved 2022-06-15^
  8. Israel Chemicals Ltd.'s Announcement of a Name Change to ICL Group Ltd. retrieved 16 February 2021^
  9. Israel Chemicals teams with Vietnamese co Globes, 2 September 2013, retrieved 29 September 2013^
  10. Christopher Donville. Potash Cuts Profit Forecast After Fertilizer Price Drop Bloomberg News, 25 July 2013, retrieved 30 September 2013^
  11. Israel Corp Limited/The (ILCO:Tel Aviv) Bloomberg Businessweek^
  12. Knesset hears sovereign wealth fund will fall short of PM’s predicted bonanza^
  13. ICL Group Ltd – Company Profile and News Bloomberg News, retrieved 2022-07-04^
  14. Israel Chemicals – Company Profile BusinessWeek^
  15. Samir Knox. Israeli battery company shows off $30M south St. Louis plant St. Louis Business Journal, Apr 2, 2025, retrieved 2025-04-04^
  16. Henry Lazenby. Polyhalite – an almost forgotten potash source back from the brink Mining Weekly, retrieved 2016-05-19^
  17. Israel Chemicals invests $20M in plant-based ingredient production Food Dive, retrieved 2019-10-31^
  18. ICL Opens New Alternative-Protein Facility in St. Louis ICL Group, retrieved 2022-06-15^
  19. Nathan Rubbelke. Battery materials maker pivots, putting plant and $500M investment in North City www.bizjournals.com, November 19, 2024, retrieved 2025-01-06^
  20. Jacob Kirn. North City battery plant officially dead St. Louis Business Journal, 2025-11-12, retrieved 2025-11-12^
  21. NZ to stay investing in Israel Chemicals The New Zealand Herald, 2014-06-17, retrieved 2025-01-06^
  22. Karam Burjas. Israel's Use of White Phosphorus and the Inadequacy of International Law Arab Center Washington DC, August 7, 2024, retrieved 2025-01-06^
  23. El Primer de Maig de Manresa exigeix a la UPC que deixi de col·laborar amb ICL FormaBages, retrieved 2025-04-05^
  24. Israel/OPT: Identifying the Israeli army's use of white phosphorus in Gaza Citizen Evidence Lab, 2023-10-13, retrieved 2025-04-05^
  25. Israel: White Phosphorus Used in Gaza, Lebanon 2023-10-12, retrieved 2025-04-05^
  26. Israel Chemicals Mulls 500 Mln Shekel Bond Issue retrieved 12 April 2009^
  27. Israel Chemicals seeks to extend debt with 20-30 year bond sale Reuters, 2018-05-14, retrieved 2019-10-31^