Overview
Yara International ASA is a Norway-founded crop-nutrition company, established in 1905. Its core business is producing and supplying fertilizers and other crop-nutrition products, alongside ammonia and industrial nitrogen solutions. Yara says it operates in more than 60 countries and serves over 140 markets.[1][2]
Yara states its mission as “Responsibly feed the world and protect the planet.” For the year ended 2025, it reported revenue and other income of USD 15,715 million and 15,702 employees at year-end.[3][4][5] [4][5][1][3][2]
Products & services
Yara’s crop-nutrition portfolio includes YaraBela nitrogen fertilizers, typically combining nitrate and ammonium nitrogen; YaraMila compound NPK fertilizers, some with secondary and micronutrients; YaraLiva calcium-nitrate products; YaraVita specialty and foliar nutrients; YaraTera water-soluble fertigation products; YaraRega water-soluble granular NPK for field fertigation; and YaraVera urea-based nitrogen fertilizers. Its range also includes YaraAmplix biostimulants and YaraSuna organic-based fertilizers. As a formulation example, YaraLiva TROPICOTE is listed at 15.5% nitrogen and 19% calcium (26.3% CaO).[6][7][8]
Industrial products include technical urea, ammonia and nitric acid, as well as AdBlue/DEF (AUS 32) for vehicle selective catalytic reduction and ammonia or urea solutions for industrial NOx control. Yara also supplies industrial flue-gas treatment systems and related services using SCR or SNCR technology.[9][10][11][12]
Services complement the products: agronomic advice and crop-nutrition recommendations, alongside digital farming tools for crop-nutrition management, weather and water information, data integration and precision farming. Atfarm uses satellite imagery for crop monitoring and variable-rate application maps.[13][14][15] [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]
Geographic presence
Yara’s 2025 annual report describes a business operating in more than 60 countries and selling in more than 140 markets. Its operating map identifies 26 production plants and more than 10,000 Yara-branded retail outlets worldwide.[16][17]
For 2025, external revenue totaled USD 15.623 billion. By customer geography, revenue was Europe USD 5.617 billion (36.0%); Brazil USD 3.605 billion (23.1%); Latin America excluding Brazil USD 1.363 billion (8.7%); North America USD 1.882 billion (12.0%); Africa USD 0.883 billion (5.7%); and Asia USD 2.273 billion (14.5%). The report provides regional rather than country-by-country revenue figures.[18]
Yara reported 15,702 employees at year-end 2025: Europe 6,665 (42.4%); Brazil 4,895 (31.2%); Asia and Oceania 1,633 (10.4%); Latin America excluding Brazil 1,366 (8.7%); North America 623 (4.0%); and Africa 520 (3.3%). Examples of named operating sites in the report include Ambes, Le Havre and Montoir in France; Rostock and Brunsbüttel in Germany; Sluiskil in the Netherlands; Tertre in Belgium; Uusikaupunki and Kokkola in Finland; Köping in Sweden; Cubatão in Brazil; and Pilbara in Australia. These are examples cited in connection with biodiversity-sensitive areas, not a complete site list.[19][20] [18][19][20][16][17]
Business segments
Yara’s FY2025 report identifies six operating segments: Europe, Americas, Africa & Asia, Global Production, Clean Ammonia, and Industrial Solutions. The approximate contributions below are each segment’s share of group external revenue (USD 15,623 million), rather than total segment revenue, which includes internal sales.[21][22]
Europe reported USD 4,368 million in external revenue, approximately 28.0% of the group total. Its focus includes regional fertilizer production, sales and marketing, and crop-nutrition products and services for farmers.[23][22] Americas reported USD 5,472 million, approximately 35.0%, covering production, sales and marketing across the Americas, with a broad crop-nutrition portfolio.[24][22] Africa & Asia reported USD 2,401 million, approximately 15.4%, serving agricultural and industrial markets across Asia-Pacific, Africa and Oceania with fertilizer and related products.[25][26][22]
Global Production reported USD 52 million in external revenue, approximately 0.3%; it oversees production at major plants and production-system and operational-efficiency responsibilities, while most of its reported revenue is internal.[27][28][22] Clean Ammonia reported USD 856 million, approximately 5.5%, managing ammonia sales and logistics, balancing supply across Yara’s plants and serving external customers.[29][30][22] Industrial Solutions reported USD 2,455 million, approximately 15.7%, supplying nitrogen-based products and services to industries including automotive, construction, waste handling, shipping, chemicals, mining and animal feed.[31][22] Other and Eliminations is not an operating segment; it reported USD 20 million, approximately 0.1% of external revenue, and mainly reflects eliminations and unallocated corporate costs.[32][22]
The report also presents revenue by product/service category and customer geography as alternative analytical views. It notes that comparative segment figures were restated following the reassignment of Pilbara ammonia and Pilbara Nitrates between segments.[33][18][34][35][36] [21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][18][34][35][36]
Company history
Yara’s industrial roots date to 1905, when Sam Eyde and Kristian Birkeland’s nitrogen-fixation breakthrough led to the founding of Norsk Hydro. Hydro’s fertilizer business expanded internationally in the following decades: it began regular NPK fertilizer production in 1938, established the Qatar fertilizer joint venture QAFCO in 1969, and acquired Dutch fertilizer company NSM in 1979.[37][38][39]
In 2004, Norsk Hydro demerged its agricultural division, creating Yara International ASA as an independent company, which listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange that year. Yara expanded through acquisitions including Fertibras in Brazil and Finland’s Kemira GrowHow in 2006–07, and the Vale Cubatão fertilizer complex in Brazil in 2017. In 2017, it also partnered with Kongsberg on the Yara Birkeland electric autonomous vessel; the ship made its maiden voyage in 2021 and completed its first fully autonomous voyage under human supervision in 2023. In 2024, Yara opened a renewable-hydrogen plant at Herøya and reported its first fertilizer production using ammonia made with renewable hydrogen.[40][41][42][37][43][44] [37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44]
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