Urea production at the state-owned Shahjalal Fertiliser Company Ltd. (SFCL) in Sylhet, Bangladesh, has been suspended since Jan. 8, 2022, due to a mechanical glitch, according to local news reports. The facility went into production in 2016 and has annual production capacity of 580,000 mt of urea and 300,000 mt of ammonia.
The company reportedly expects to restart soon after the arrival of equipment to repair the software for the gas turbine at the plant, news reports confirmed. SFCL is the nitrogen manufacturing entity under the Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corp. (BCIC) umbrella.