Polish fertilizers and chemicals company Anwil SA reported that its new nitrogen fertilizer granulation plant is around 92% complete, with completion scheduled for June next year. Commissioning is due to take place at the end of July, the producer said in a statement earlier this month.
The new plant is being built at Anwil’s existing production site in Włocławek, in central Poland, and under the original plan was to have an average production capacity of 1,500 mt/d, depending on the type of fertilizer.
Once commissioned, the new facility will raise Anwil’s production capacity by around 50%, to 1.461 million mt/y from the current 966,000 mt/y, according to the company. Four new products also will be added to the company’s portfolio, namely, ammonium nitrate, ammonium sulfate nitrate, ammonium nitrate with sulfur, and CAN with magnesium.
Completion of the new facility was originally scheduled for mid-2022, but Anwil and the turnkey builder, Milan-based Tecnimont SpA, last December inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) providing for a new deadline (GM Dec. 31, 2021). Under the revised agreement, the completion of the plant had been agreed for the end of 2022 and its start-up in January 2023.
According to an Oct. 7 statement by Anwil, the two parties subsequently agreed to the latest revised completion and commissioning dates, citing disruptions to supply chains and other macroeconomic conditions largely due to the war in Ukraine.
Anwil put the total investment in the new nitrogen fertilizer production facility at around Pln1.7 billion (approximately $358 million at current exchange rates).