Karachi December 29 2022: Engro Fertilizers Limited restore its base plant capacity to 950,000 tons after various modernization activities, according to company filing to the exchange.
To ensure long-term reliability and sustainable safe operations of the Base Plant, Engro Fertilizers Limited undertook various maintenance, debottlenecking, balancing, modernization, and replacement activities.
Following that the Company has been testing plant performance and based on assessment we are pleased to disclose that the Base Plant is now capable of producing urea up to 950,000 tons per annum.
EFERT set up the first urea production facility in Pakistan, a landmark event in agricultural sector of the country. It started Urea production with 173,000 tons per year in 1968. With various debottlenecking and expansion steps, production capacity increased to 975,000 tons per year. In 2011, the company set up the world’s largest (at that time) single train urea plant of 1.3 million tons capacity. In 2021, EFERT produced 2.1 million tons during the year.
