Polish fertilizer and chemicals group Grupa Azoty SA reported that it had held talks with copper and silver-producing major KGHM Polska Miedź SA on expanding their cooperation on sulfuric acid production and on Azoty’s involvement in the expansion of the Police sea port.
Azoty in its March 15 media statement provided no further details on the sulfuric acid production cooperation.
Police port, which has access to the Baltic Sea via the Szczecin Lagoon and Świna Strait, serves as the Azoty group’s maritime import and export transportation base. Police is Poland’s fourth largest port.
A major project is underway at the port aimed at improving the port’s accessibility from the shore and sea and increasing its transshipment capacity by over 400,000 mt/y.
The port expansion is a key element in Azoty’s flagship polymers project, which as of mid-February was more than 99% complete, the group said.
Located at Police, the polymers project is one of the largest chemicals projects in Europe. Built at a cost of $1.8 billion, the polymers complex will comprise a propylene dehydrogenation plant and a polypropylene production plant, with an annual capacity of up to 437,000 mt/y.