The Paradip-based Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited (IFFCO) has embarked on commercial trade of phosphoric acid.
The fertiliser-manufacturing plant since its take over from Oswal Chemical and Fertilizer Limited in 2005 has turned surplus with regard to phosphoric acid production.
Recently the IFFCO's Kandla unit has become the first buyer of phosphoric acid, said D V Suri Advisor (Personnel & Administration).
With this, the Paradip plant will operate at higher load and this will improve financial viability of Paradip unit in present competitive fertiliser sector.
For export of acid, IFFCO Paradip has put in place a 6 km long pipeline from plant site to the jetty along with necessary pumping arrangement.
The first ship has been loaded on July 12 with export of 8000 tonnes of acid. It is now planned that export will be doubled from next month.
This is a major achievement since the unit started operating in 2005 and the complete project has been commissioned in record time of six months, Suri added.
He also claimed that the plant has been revamped to international standard with special emphasis on pollution control mechanism. The four-year-old plant has now achieved near-100 percent capacity utilisation.
To make the unit further financially viable, it has started exporting power to the State government.
Besides IFFCO has also commenced producing Hydro-fluosilicic acid from industrial waste on a commercial basis, he added.
Source : KlingaTimes.com