Acron Group reported its commercial output of fertilizers in the first nine months of this year increased 0.2%, to 5.268 million mt from 5.258 million in the same prior-year period.
Nitrogen fertilizer output was down 0.5% year-over-year, to 3.45 million mt from 3.47 million mt. Of this total, ammonium nitrate production declined 14%, to 1.47 million mt from 1.71 million mt, while urea production grew 6%, to 1.02 million mt from 963,000 mt. UAN production increased 11% year-over-year, to 889,000 mt from 798,000 mt.
Acron’s production of calcium nitrate (CN) reached 72,000 mt during the nine-month period, well above the 2,000 mt produced in the same year-ago period. The Russian fertilizer group commissioned its first CN production plant in August 2022, with capacity of 100,000 mt/y (GM Aug. 12, 2022).
Acron has a second CN production unit with 135,000 mt/y capacity under construction, and announced earlier this month that it is increasing capacity at the existing CN unit to 135,000 mt/y (GM Oct. 13, p. 25).
Acron’s compex fertilizers output in the first nine months rose 2%, to 1.81 million mt from 1.78 million mt. Of this total, NPK fertilizers production reached 1.74 million mt, a 4.5% increase from the prior year’s 1.67 million mt.