The federal government wants to hear from more industry members on the state of AdBlue supplies
The federal government says it will extend the submission deadline from industry members on the investigation into Australia’s AdBlue supply.
The submission deadline has been pushed from July 22 to 5PM on Monday, July 25 to submit and give input into the current state of the nation’s AdBlue security.
The Department of Industry, Science and Resources recently released a request for information on the current AdBlue market as it seeks to build resilience in domestic diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) supplies.
The federal government says it wants to better understand the urea market after supply chain pressures in the past two years threatened the availability of AdBlue.
Through its request for information, the government department is hoping to better comprehend:
- The stocks, storage and supply chains
- The ways to promote greater AdBlue market transparency to support industry and government
- The existing sovereign capability investments as well as new opportunities in the pipeline
- What the industry is doing to strengthen and diversify AdBlue supply chains
Recently the industry has expressed concern over the upcoming closure of Queensland’s Incitec Pivot plant, which would mean Australia wouldn’t have an onshore source of urea.
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“This had the potential to cause harmful economic impacts by disrupting Australia’s diesel-dependent transport and logistics system, particularly heavy trucking and other modern diesel vehicles requiring AdBlue,” the department says.
Yet in an update given by the Australian Trucking Association (ATA), DGL AusBlue’s general manager Matthew Berry says there’s actually an oversupply of AdBlue coming from the Incitec Pivot plant.