What is CF Industries?
CF Industries is a public nitrogen fertilizer, ammonia, clean ammonia, and industrial nitrogen products company with $6.24B 2025 net sales, headquartered in Northbrook, IL.
- Category
- Nitrogen fertilizer, ammonia, clean ammonia, and industrial nitrogen products
- Headquarters
- Northbrook, IL
- Founded
- 1946
- Employees
- About 2,700
- Total funding
- Public company; no VC funding
- Status
- NYSE: CF
What is CF Industries?
CF Industries is a public company in nitrogen fertilizer, ammonia, clean ammonia, and industrial nitrogen products. Its latest public reporting shows $6.24B 2025 net sales and $1.46B 2025 net earnings; $2.89B adjusted EBITDA.
CF Industries operates at public-company scale in agriculture, food ingredients, or food production rather than as a venture-backed startup. Its core business spans Ammonia, Granular urea, UAN, AN, Diesel exhaust fluid, and related commercial programs serving growers, food manufacturers, retailers, foodservice accounts, industrial customers, or consumers.
The company is large enough that buying decisions are usually distributed across corporate functions, plants, farms, processing sites, quality teams, logistics networks, finance, procurement, IT, legal, sustainability, and commercial leadership. Current scale is anchored by $6.24B 2025 net sales, About 2,700, headquarters in Northbrook, IL, and a public listing as NYSE: CF.
For sellers, CF Industries should be mapped as a multi-threaded account, not a single executive sale. The strongest pitches tie directly to measurable outcomes such as yield, uptime, food safety, quality, margin expansion, working-capital efficiency, supply-chain resilience, customer service levels, sustainability reporting, or lower cost to serve.
What does CF Industries offer?
CF Industries offers Ammonia, Granular urea, UAN, AN, Diesel exhaust fluid, Nitric acid, and related commercial, operating, or distribution services.
- Ammonia· Offering
- Granular urea· Offering
- UAN· Offering
- AN· Offering
- Diesel exhaust fluid· Offering
- Nitric acid· Offering
- Clean ammonia projects· Offering
- Carbon capture and low-carbon nitrogen· Offering
How does CF Industries make money?
CF Industries makes money by producing, processing, sourcing, formulating, merchandising, branding, or distributing agricultural and food-related products through negotiated commercial channels.
CF Industries's pricing is not a public SaaS-style price list. Revenue generally comes from commodity-linked contracts, customer programs, branded and private-label products, ingredient specifications, supply agreements, processing margins, distribution services, retail or foodservice channels, and project or plant-level operating economics.
Growth depends on volume, price/mix, crop and protein cycles, commodity spreads, customer wins, innovation, channel execution, plant productivity, sourcing reliability, freight, inventory discipline, and the company's ability to convert raw agricultural inputs into higher-value products. In the latest reporting period, the scale marker was $6.24B 2025 net sales, with performance context of $1.46B 2025 net earnings; $2.89B adjusted EBITDA.
Vendors should expect procurement discipline, food-safety or supplier-quality reviews, legal and data-security review for software, plant or site pilots, and regional stakeholder maps. Practical sales language should quantify ROI by facility, farm, route, product line, SKU family, ingredient system, retailer, foodservice account, or customer segment.
Who leads CF Industries?
CF Industries is led by Christopher D. Bohn, President and Chief Executive Officer, with finance, operations, technology, legal, commercial, and business-unit leaders shaping major buying decisions.
- Christopher D. BohnPresident and Chief Executive OfficerCEO since 2024Leads nitrogen strategy, production operations, and clean-energy initiatives.
- Andrew T. ScribnerExecutive Vice President and Chief Financial OfficerCFO effective May 2026Leads finance, reporting, treasury, and capital allocation.
- Bert A. FrostExecutive Vice President, Sales, Market Development and Supply ChainLong-tenured executiveOwns sales, market development, logistics, and customer supply.
- Julie Scheck FreigangSenior Vice President and Chief Information OfficerTechnology leaderLeads enterprise technology and digital operations.
- Douglas C. BarnardSenior Vice President, General Counsel and SecretaryLegal leaderOwns legal, governance, compliance, and public-company matters.
How do you contact CF Industries's leadership?
CF Industries publishes official corporate, investor, media, supplier, or customer contact routes. Use those official channels; do not treat inferred personal executive addresses as verified unless the company has published them.
investorrelations@cfindustries.com is a public official contact route; personal executive email format not verified- Andrew T. ScribnerExecutive Vice President and Chief Financial Officerinvestorrelations@cfindustries.com
- Bert A. FrostExecutive Vice President, Sales, Market Development and Supply Chaininvestorrelations@cfindustries.com
- Julie Scheck FreigangSenior Vice President and Chief Information Officerinvestorrelations@cfindustries.com
How much funding has CF Industries raised?
CF Industries is a public company (NYSE: CF), so its capital profile is public equity, debt, operating cash flow, acquisitions, divestitures, and shareholder returns rather than venture funding rounds.
CF Industries does not have a startup-style funding-round history to enumerate. Its relevant capital base is the public market listing (NYSE: CF), operating cash flow, debt capacity, dividends or repurchases where applicable, and major acquisition, divestiture, plant, farm, capacity, technology, and supply-chain investments.
The current budget signal is operating scale, not runway. CF Industries's latest public reporting shows $6.24B 2025 net sales, About 2,700, and $1.46B 2025 net earnings; $2.89B adjusted EBITDA, which means enterprise buying normally moves through annual planning, procurement, capital committees, IT/security, supplier qualification, operations leadership, and executive sponsorship.
For sales teams, funding should be interpreted as capital allocation. Strong opportunities attach to documented cost savings, risk reduction, plant throughput, agricultural yield, safety, quality, compliance, automation, traceability, sustainability, customer service, logistics efficiency, or measurable gross-margin improvement.
How did CF Industries get here?
CF Industries's history runs from founding and public-market scale through portfolio expansion, operational milestones, leadership transitions, and current 2025-2026 priorities.
- 1946Founded as a fertilizer cooperativeCF begins as Central Farmers Fertilizer Company.
- 2005IPOCF Industries becomes a publicly traded company.
- 2015Terra Nitrogen transactionCF consolidates additional nitrogen assets and strengthens its North American footprint.
- 2022Clean ammonia and carbon capture focusCF advances low-carbon ammonia strategy and emissions-reduction projects.
- 2025$2.89B adjusted EBITDACF reports full-year 2025 adjusted EBITDA of $2.89B.
- 2026Andrew Scribner named CFOCF appoints Andrew T. Scribner as CFO effective May 26, 2026.
Who are CF Industries's competitors?
CF Industries competes with large agriculture, food-ingredient, fertilizer, crop-input, fresh-produce, or packaged-food companies depending on the product line and customer channel.
- NutrienLarge fertilizer and retail agronomy competitor with potash, nitrogen, phosphate, and retail reach.
- YaraGlobal nitrogen and crop nutrition company with ammonia and fertilizer production.
- MosaicFertilizer peer focused on potash, phosphates, and crop nutrients.
- OCI GlobalNitrogen, methanol, and low-carbon fuels competitor with ammonia exposure.
- Koch FertilizerPrivate nitrogen fertilizer producer and distributor.
- LindeIndustrial gas competitor relevant to ammonia, hydrogen, and clean-energy projects.
Sources:CF reportsCF Industries website
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