EuroChem to launch ammonia and urea plant in Leningrad Region in Q3 2026
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- EuroChem plans to launch a new ammonia and urea plant in the Leningrad Region in the third quarter of 2026, according to General Director Igor Akhmerov.
- The Kingisepp facility's second phase, with a capacity of 1.1 million tons of ammonia and 1.4 million tons of urea annually, has faced several postponements.
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ST. PETERSBURG, June 4. /TASS/. EuroChem plans to launch an ammonia and urea plant in the Leningrad Region in the third quarter of 2026, General Director Igor Akhmerov told TASS on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF).
"We planned to launch it in the third quarter of this year. We are clearly on track to achieve this goal," he said.
The company previously announced plans to launch ammonia production in Kingisepp in 2026.
Earlier reports said that the capacity of the second phase of the Kingisepp plant could reach 1.1 mln tons of ammonia, and 1.4 mln tons of urea per year. The launch date has been postponed several times. As part of the first phase, a plant producing 1 mln tons of ammonia per year was launched in 2019.
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