Togliatti, Russia — Trammo Group and KuibyshevAzot JSC have formed Granifert LLC, a 50-50 joint venture, to build a 140,000 mt/y granular ammonium sulfate plant at KuibyshevAzot’s site. The estimated investment amount is more than 700 million rubles (US$12.5 million), with a project implementation period of 2015-2017. KuibyshevAzot is one of the leading producers of AS in the Russian Federation and Eastern Europe. In 2014 the fertilizer output constituted 450,000 mt, including granular at 90,000 mt/y. The company puts ammonia capacity at 1.32 million mt/y, ammonium nitrate at 550,000 mt/y, and urea at 320,000 mt/y. The company is also a producer of caprolactam and derivative products.