Acron Group, Moscow, reported its sales of NPK to the domestic market increased by 6 percent in 2021, reaching around 460,000 mt. The group’s total sales to the Russian market last year were about 1.2 million mt, according to a Feb. 15 statement by the Russian fertilizer group.
Acron reminded that ammonium nitrate (AN) is still the most popular fertilizer product with Russian growers. To meet this growing demand, the group – as previously reported – is upgrading the ammonia unit, building a new nitric acid unit, and increasing AN production capacity at its Dorogobuzh subsidiary production site in Russia’s Smolensk region (GM Dec. 3, 2021).
On completion of the project, Dorogobuzh’s ammonia production capacity will increase by 130,000 mt/y to 730,000 mt/y, and AN production capacity will rise by 180,000 mt/y.
Acron said it also launched last year a new online fertilizer store so that small and medium-sized growers “can easily buy high-quality Acron fertilizers without going through intermediaries.”