Polish fertilizer and chemicals producer Grupa Azoty SA has launched a new unit for the production of concentrated nitric acid with a design output of 40,000 mt/y, doubling its existing capacity.
This is a second production line for above 98% concentrated nitric acid now operating at the company’s Tarnów production site, and has brought the Tarnów site’s total annual capacity for concentrated nitric acid to 80,000 mt, Azoty said in a Jan. 24 media statement.
As Poland’s only producer of concentrated nitric acid, the project is key to ensuring supplies of input materials for the manufacture of fine chemicals, the company said.