Acron Group, Moscow, has confirmed its Urea 6+ urea project is still expected to come on stream in the second quarter of the year, the group said in its earnings statement on March 19 (GM Jan. 29, p. 34).
The completion of the upgrade will increase the urea unit’s production capacity by 520,000 mt/y, and will increase Acron Group’s annual urea production capability by over half a million mt to 1.9 million mt, making it the largest urea producer not only in Russia, but also in Europe.
The group said it has launched three additional projects to support future growth. At the Veliky Novgorod site in northwest Russia, it is building a calcium nitrate production facility – its first – with 100,000 mt/y capacity, and is upgrading the Ammonia-3 unit at the site to increase its capacity by 200,000 mt/y. These projects are scheduled for commissioning in 2022 and 2023, respectively.
At its Dorogobuzh site in Russia’s Smolensk region, Acron is building a nitric acid unit and increasing capacity at the existing ammonium nitrate (AN) units to boost AN output by 180,000 mt/y. The project is expected to come on stream in late 2021.