Argus reported Heartland Sulphur increased re-melting capacity at its Edmonton-area terminal by 40 percent to 700 tonnes a day, from 500 tonnes a day, and plans 1,500 tonnes a day by end-2026, triple the original 2021 commissioning rate, supporting crushed-bulk remelt into molten rail and Vancouver granules. The item is at https://www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-insights/latest-market-news/2755482-heartland-ups-re-melting-capacity-at-alberta-terminal.
Seven hundred tonnes a day is about 255,000 tonnes a year if the plant runs every day. Fifteen hundred tonnes a day is about 548,000 tonnes a year. Those are remelt rates, not Claus recovery. They turn block into molten that can rail to prillers and to the US, or into granules that can load at Vancouver. They do not raise oil-sands sulfur production.
The June expansion sits one month before the 11.66 million tonne July provincial inventory print, the lowest since May 2019. Heartland is one mechanical answer to that draw. Syncrude's later November 9.9 million tonne facility print is the block that still needs excavators before it reaches any remelter. Capacity at 700 tonnes a day is not the 11.66 million tonne pile. It is the hose.
Alberta recovered sulfur still leaves mainly through the Vancouver stem. Heartland's granules are a Vancouver product. Heartland's molten rail is the US phosphate and industrial book that USGS counts inside Canada's 53 percent of US elemental imports. One terminal, two corridors.
January-July FOB averaging $238 per tonne, versus $78 a year earlier, is why a 40 percent remelt increase made sense in June. Export-process costs above $150 per tonne had justified pouring in the soft years. 2025 FOB justified melting. End-2026 at 1,500 tonnes a day is the CRU remelt-cycle thesis, about 1.5 million tonnes of Canadian block across 2025-2030, given a forming-plant timetable.
BC Insight's oil-sands capacity list, about 2.2 million tonnes a year near Fort McMurray and 700,000 around Edmonton including Shell Scotford and Redwater, is recovery. Heartland is remelt. Confusing them overstates how fast Canada can answer a Gulf hole. Forming and remelt saturate. Claus does not sprint.
Tampa at $270 per long ton in early April, USGS, is the Florida bid on molten that Heartland can rail. Vancouver at $238 January-July average is the granule bid. The terminal sits on both. Licensed weekly grids are not restated.
Figures follow Argus on the Heartland expansion.