CVR Partners Names Bill White As Executive Vice President of Marketing and Operations

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Jun 23, 2014, 09:00 ET

SUGAR LAND, Texas, June 23, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- CVR Partners, LP (NYSE: UAN), a manufacturer of ammonia and urea ammonium nitrate (UAN) solution fertilizer products, today announced that Bill White will become executive vice president of marketing and operations for the partnership's general partner, CVR GP, LLC, effective immediately.

Based in Kansas City, Kan., White will lead the partnership's national marketing, operations and transportation strategies. He reports to Mark Pytosh, president and chief executive officer of CVR GP.

White has more than 37 years of experience in the chemical industry. He first joined Coffeyville Resources Nitrogen Fertilizers, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of CVR Partners, in 2005 as the director of business development and logistics. He later served as CVR Partners' vice president of marketing. In 2012, White was promoted to his most recent position of vice president of marketing, development and logistics.

"Bill's leadership at CVR Partners has played a critical role in the company's success during the past several years," said Pytosh. "Given his diverse background in operations, marketing and distribution, he will continue to focus on delivering strong operating performance at our Coffeyville plant and excellence in the marketing and distribution of nitrogen fertilizer and diesel exhaust fluid."

White spent the majority of his career serving in various management positions related to predecessor companies of CVR Partners, such as manager of Farmland's product distribution system and plant manager at Farmland's Pollock, La., and Enid, Okla., fertilizer plants. Prior to joining Coffeyville Resources Nitrogen Fertilizers, he served as the general manager for EPCO Carbon Dioxide Products, Inc.

White holds a bachelor's degree in business from the University of Louisiana at Monroe. He currently serves on the board of directors for The Fertilizer Institute.

About CVR Partners, LP
Headquartered in Sugar Land, Texas, with manufacturing facilities located in Coffeyville, Kan., CVR Partners, LP is a Delaware limited partnership focused primarily on the manufacture of nitrogen fertilizers. The CVR Partners nitrogen fertilizer manufacturing facility is the only operation in North America that uses a petroleum coke gasification process to produce nitrogen fertilizer and includes a 1,225 ton-per-day ammonia unit, a 3,000 ton-per-day urea ammonium nitrate unit, and a dual-train gasifier complex having a capacity of 84 million standard cubic feet per day of hydrogen.

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