Polish fertilizer and chemicals producer Grupa Azoty S.A. on Oct. 10 said its Zakłady Azotowe Kędzierzyn S.A. subsidiary resumed nitric acid and fertilizer production “at minimum plant loads” in the last week of September. It said more production facilities at Kędzierzyn are currently being put back in operation and gradually ramped up to full capacity.
Kędzierzyn’s ammonia unit halted production on Sept. 5 after a malfunction (GM Sept. 8, p 25). As a consequence, production of fertilizers, nitric acid, UAN, urea, and OXO alcohols were also temporarily stopped at the site.
Azoty earlier put the preliminary estimated cost of the failure of the ammonia plant at about Pln20 million, or approximately $4.68 million at current exchange rates (GM Sept. 29, p. 27).