Acron Group, Moscow, reported a 3% increase in its commercial output of mineral fertilizer to 6.99 million mt in 2022, up from 6.77 million mt the previous year.
Nitrogen fertilizer production was up 9% to 5.51 million mt compared with the previous year. Of that total, output of urea for agricultural use grew 25% to 1.82 million mt, and AN production increased 8% to 2.41 million mt. But UAN output was down by 7% to 1.26 million mt.
Acron saw its first production of calcium nitrate last year, following the start of a 100,000 mt/y unit to produce granulated calcium nitrate at its facility in Veliky Novgorod in northwest Russia in August (GM Aug. 12, 2022). It had produced 9,000 mt by the end of last year.
Ammonia output fell by 3% to 2.82 million mt.
Production of complex fertilizers also fell, by 10% compared with 2021, to 2.36 million mt. Of this total, NPK output declined to 2.23 million mt, an 8% fall.
Acron Group’s overall commercial output was 2% off last year, declining to 8.35 million from 8.49 million in 2021.
Acron Group mineral fertilizer production (‘000 mt)
| Product | FY2022 | FY2021 | % change |
| Ammonia | 2,816 | 2,909 | (3) |
| Nitrogen fertilizers | 5,505 | 5,058 | +9 |
| AN | 2,410 | 2,241 | +8 |
| Urea | 1,822 | 1,463 | +25 |
| UAN | 1,264 | 1,354 | (7) |
| Calcium nitrate | 9 | 0 | |
| Complex fertilizers | 2,362 | 2,625 | (10) |
| NPK | 2,226 | 2,406 | (8) |
| Bulk blends | 136 | 219 | (38) |
| Total commercial output | 6,991 | 6,765 | +3 |