Grupa Azoty Zakłady Chemiczne Police SA, the subsidiary of Polish fertilizer and chemicals company Grupa Azoty SA, early this week said it can partly restore production on most of its important installations after it was able to fix one of two boilers that had broken down, according to a Polish Press Agency (PAP) report, citing a March 21 company statement.
Zakłady Chemiczne Police on March 9 declared a force majeure event due to the failure of the two boilers at the power plant at its Police production site, which had resulted in “a temporary stoppage or a very significant limitation of production” (GM March 18, p. 32).
The company said as a consequence of the boilers’ breakdown it had become impossible to generate the process steam necessary for the production of the Police’s most important units.
Zakłady Chemiczne Police is Poland’s largest manufacturer of compound fertilizers, with some 1 million mt/y of production capacity.
It said the estimated financial impact of the breakdown will be disclosed in a separate filing.