As reported in last week’s issue of Green Markets, Russian fertilizer group PhosAgro has completed the first stage of its investment project for the development of a new production complex at Volkhov in Russia’s Leningrad region (GM March 12, p. 33). In an English-language media statement on March 16, the producer said it has launched a new MAP production facility with capacity of 231,000 mt/y (a capacity of 288,500 mt/y was reported in the previous article), with the production of the first pilot batch of MAP.
This first phase of development also includes a finished product warehouse of 15,000 mt (not 12,000 mt, as previously reported).
Under the second phase of development, which PhosAgro expects to be completed by 2023, existing fertilizer production facilities at the fertilizer production site number 2 at Volkhov will be upgraded and pivoted to MAP production. This, together, with other upgrades, will enable the group to increase total fertilizer production at the site to 774,000 mt/y.
“Once the investment project is fully completed, an entirely new production complex will be created on the site of the old plant, which was built in 1932, and total MAP production will reach 870,000 mt/y, using the best available technologies,” said PhosAgro.