SPIC’s fertilizer plant in Tamil Nadu, India running at full capacity
10 November 2010 09:17 [Source: ICIS news]
BANGALORE (ICIS)--India-based Southern Petrochemical Industries Corp (SPIC) is running its fertilizer facility at Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu state at full capacity after restarting it in mid-October, a source close to the company said on Wednesday.
The fertilizer company had begun trial runs at the complex on 12 October after keeping the plant idle since March 2007 because of cash flow woes, the source added.
SPIC operates a 352,000 tonne/year ammonia unit and a 512,000 tonne/year urea plant at Tuticorin.
The company is expected to issue an official statement after production stabilises.
SPIC plans to switch to natural gas feedstock at its fertilizer plant by the end of 2012, when the Indian government was expected to finalise gas allocation, the source said.
GAIL, which is laying the gas pipeline from
Meanwhile, SPIC subsidiary Tuticorin Alkali Chemicals & Fertilizers (TACF), also resumed operations at its Tamil Nadu fertilizer unit in late October.
TACF’s plant has the capacity to produce 115,000 tonnes/year of soda ash and 105,000 tonnes/year of ammonium chloride as co-products.
The plant had been shut since 4 March 2007 due to the non-availability of carbon dioxide (CO2) from an adjacent fertilizers complex.
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By: RD Nair
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