National Fertilizers Ltd has recently opened a new bio-fertilizers bottling plant in Vijaipur unit in Madhya Pradesh. The plant was inaugurated by D.S. Ahuja, Director - Technical in the presence of J S Singh, GM(I/c) and senior officials.

 

The plant has a capacity of 600 tonnes of solid & liquid Bio-Fertilizers to produce four strains of bio-fertilizers namely PSB, ZSB, Rhizobium and Azotobacter.

 

The Vijaipur unit is one of the four units of National Fertilizers Limited. With the commencement of commercial production of the expansion project the gas based unit at Vijaipur now comprises of two 1520 ton per day (tpd) ammonia streams and four 1310 tpd urea streams and related off-site facilities. The gas is being received from the HBJ gas pipe line being operated by Gas Authority of India Ltd (GAIL). The ammonia stream completed under the expansion project can also be operated with 50 % feed of Naphtha in case of shortage of the gas supply. In order to further reduce energy consumption & augment capacity of the Vijaipur Plant, Company has revamped both the plants at Vijaipur as a result. The annual installed capacity of Vijaipur Units have been enhanced by 3.40 LMT (16% in case of Vijaipur -I and 23% in case of Vijaipur-II ) with the total capacity of the company has been incresed from 32.31 LMT to 35.68 LMT.

 

NFL has five gas based Ammonia-Urea plants viz. Nangal & Bathinda plants in Punjab, Panipat plant in Haryana and two plants at Vijaipur at District Guna, in Madhya Pradesh. The company currently has a total annual installed capacity of 35.68 LMT (Re-assessed capacity of 32.31 LMT) & is the second largest producer of urea in the country with a share of about 16% of total urea production in the country.