The Tatarstan Republic nitrogen fertilizer and methanol producer AO Ammoni plans to start production of UAN in the autumn of this year, according to a Fertilizerdaily report, citing Ammoni’s General Director Dmitry Makarov.
The new unit will have a design capacity of 150,000 mt/y, and will be fully ramped up by 2024, according to the report. This year, Mendeleevsk-based Ammoni will also begin the production of AdBlue and plans to complete the construction of a liquid CO2 production facility by the end of 2023.
The company early this year announced ambitious production expansion plans, including an increase in nitrogen fertilizer production capacity from the current 1 million mt/y to 3 million mt/y (GM Feb. 9, p. 29).
AO Ammoni has been owned by Russian fertilizer and chemicals producer Kemerovo Azot since July 2020 (GM July 24, 2020).