Tatarstan Republic-based nitrogen fertilizer and methanol producer JSC Ammoni is looking to build a new ammonia and urea production facility. Ammoni set up a subsidiary Ammoni 2 LLC in March to act as the operator for the new production facility, according to an Interfax report last week, citing a spokesperson for JSC Ammoni.
The Ammoni 2 project will include an ammonia plant with 3,500 mt/d of production capacity or annual capacity of 1.3 million mt/y, and a granular urea production facility with 4,200 mt/d capacity or annual capacity of 1.5 million mt/y.
Construction is expected to begin at the end of this year or the start of 2022, with operations start-up targeted for 2026, according to the report. A feasibility study is now underway.
Mendeleevsk-based Ammoni, located approximately 1,000 km east of Moscow, currently has nameplate capacity of 715,000 mt/y of ammonia without methanol production, or 487,300 mt/y of ammonia with integrated production (and 233,800 mt/y of methanol), 717,500 mt /y capacity of granular urea, and 380,000 mt/y of ammonium nitrate, according to the company’s website.
The company came under new ownership in July last year, when its biggest creditor and 22.8 percent shareholder, Russian state development bank corporation VEB.RF, closed a deal to sell 100 percent of the company to Russian fertilizer and chemicals producer Kemerovo Azot (GM July 24, 2020).
Kemerovo Azot is part of Russian nitrogen fertilizer and industrial products manufacturer SDS-Azot, which is owned by Russian businessman Roman Trotsenko, and whose other fertilizer assets include Russia’s Angarask Nitrogen Fertilizer Plant.