Perth — The Wesfarmers board of directors has given its proposed ammonium nitrate project at Kwinana, south of Perth, the green light, but has pushed back the possible start-up from early 2014 to fourth quarter 2014. Environmental approvals are in place, and customer offtake agreements are close to being finalized for the A$550 million project. The project entails the construction of a third nitric acid/ammonium nitrate plant with production capacity of 260,000 mt/y, which would bring total AN capacity to 780,000 mt/y. The current forecast is for construction to be completed by the second quarter of fiscal 2014, with start-up in the fourth quarter.
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