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PhosAgro and Chemoproject Nitrogen sign a cooperation agreement

14.08.2014 16:07

The agreement for design engineering and procurement of equipment for the construction of a new granulated urea unit in the Vologda Region was signed by PhosAgro CEO Andrey Guryev and Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of Chemoproject Nitrogen a.s. Tomas Plachy.

Urea and granulation technology will be licensed from Stamicarbon from the Netherlands, the licensing and IP Center of Maire Tecnimont, which was the licensor on the construction of the second urea production unit at PhosAgro-Cherepovets, commissioned by Chemoprojekt a.s. in 2012.

This will be the first time that Stamicarbon’s Urea2000plusTM technology will be used for producing granulated urea in Russia.

The construction of the third urea production unit at PhosAgro-Cherepovets is part of a comprehensive investment project to commission a new energy-efficient 760 ths tonnes/year ammonia plant in 2017 for the production and processing mineral fertilizers.

The project is part of PhosAgro’s long-term modernisation strategy, which was developed under the leadership of the Gorny National Mineral and Natural Resource University (St. Petersburg) and aims to completely upgrade production facilities using the state-of-the-art technologies.

Commissioning the new urea unit will increase PhosAgro Group’s overall urea production capacity by 50%, and could make PhosAgro-Cherepovets the largest single producer of urea in Russia.