Acron Sees 1% Uptick in 2023 Fert Production

Russia’s Acron Group reported a 1% uptick in its commercial fertilizer production in 2023, to 7.053 million mt, up from 6.974 million mt the previous year.

The group posted year-over-year increases in the production of ammonia (+5%), granular urea for agricultural use (+37%), CAN, and NPK fertilizers (+7%), while output of most other fertilizer products fell. Ammonia production, all of which is now used in-house, grew to 2.95 million mt in 2023, up from 2.82 million mt the previous year.

Acron’s total production of industrial products, including low-density and technical-grade ammonium nitrate and industrial urea and industrial CAN, was up 7% year-over-year, to 1.202 million mt from 1.128 million mt.

Acron Commercial Fertilizer Production (‘000 mt)