Outages at three of its facilities helped put LSB Industries Inc. in the loss column for the first quarter ending March 31, 2013. The company reported a net loss of $368,000 on net sales of $150.7 million versus the year-ago net income of $23.1 million on sales of $190.2 million.
The company announced that the principal ammonia plant at Pryor, Okla., returned to production in late April. In addition, the Cherokee, Ala., ammonia plant restarted the week of April 29. While most of the El Dorado, Ark., plant has been back in production for some time, full production is not expected until a nitric acid plant is completed in first half 2015.