Acron Boosts 1H Fertilizer Output by 7%

Acron Group reported a 7% increase in fertilizer output for the first half of the year, to 3.67 million mt from 3.43 million mt last year. Its total commercial output, which includes apatite concentrate for sale to third parties and industrial products, reached 4.3 million mt, up 6% from the year-ago 4.05 million mt.

Acron’s six-month production of nitrogen fertilizers increased 12% year-over-year, to 2.88 million mt from 2.56 million mt. UAN output was up 64%, to 751,000 mt from 457,000 mt, and urea production rose 18%, to 975,000 mt. Those increases were mainly at the expense of ammonium nitrate, which fell 13% year-over-year, to 1.11 million mt from 1.27 million mt.

The group earlier this month reported that it had delivered more than 50,000 mt of calcium nitrate (CN) to its customers since commissioning a new unit at its Veliky Novgorod production site in northwest Russia in August 2022 (GM Aug. 12, 2022). The unit, Acron’s first for CN production, has a capacity of 100,000 mt/y capacity and produced 45,000 mt in the first half of the year.

Acron saw a marginal uptick in its complex fertilizers output in the first six months, to 1.21 million mt from 1.20 million mt in the same period last year.