Volkhov — PhosAgro has launched a new production facility at its Volkhov production complex. The new million-tonne plant will enable the Company to meet the growing demand of Russian farmers for years to come while also bolstering PhosAgro’s position as the leading supplier of mineral fertilizers to the Russian market.
The upgrades and new construction carried out at the production site will have the following impacts:
- o annual production of mineral fertilizers will increase more than fourfold compared with 2019, when the construction of the new production facility began, to over 1 million tonnes;
- o processing of phosphate rock will increase more than fivefold to over 1.5 million tonnes per year;
- o sulphuric acid production will increase more than fivefold to 1.1 million tonnes per year;
- o phosphoric acid production will increase more than fivefold to 500 thousand tonnes per year; and
- o around 700 jobs have been created, including 330 highly skilled engineering jobs.
Advanced technologies were used in the construction of the eco-friendly production facility. Notably, the project involved the building of new plants for the extraction of phosphoric and sulphuric acids as well as for the production of water-soluble mineral fertilizers, new storage facilities, and a waste process steam recovery plant that can meet more than 80% of the site’s electricity needs.