Manufacturing Plants

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 Panipat, Bathinda & Nangal plants were revamped for feed stock conversion from Fuel Oil to Natural Gas, an eco-friendly fuel during 2012-13 / 2013-14. Vijaipur plants of the company were also revamped for energy savings & capacity enhancement during 2012-13, thus increasing its total annual capacity from 20.66 LMT from 17.29 LMT, an increase of 20%. The company currently has a total annual installed capacity of 35.68 LMT (Re-assessed capacity of 32.31 LMT) & is the 2^nd largest producer of Urea in the country with a share of about 16% of total Urea production in the country.

Company has a Bio-Fertilizers Plant at Vijaipur with a capacity of 600 tons of solid & liquid Bio-Fertilizers to produce four strains of Bio-Fertilizers viz. PSB, ZSB, Rhizobium and Azotobacter are produced.

Products

NFL is engaged in manufacturing and marketing of Neem Coated Urea, four strains of Bio-Fertilizers (solid & liquid), Bentonite Sulphur and other allied Industrial products like Ammonia, Nitric Acid, Ammonium Nitrate, Sodium Nitrite and Sodium Nitrate. The brand name of the company is popularly known in the market as ‘KISAN’.

The company has also started production of certified seeds under its Seeds Multiplication Program for sale under its own brand name as Kisan Beej.

Imports & Trading

Apart from manufacturing business, the company is also expanding its business, in a consistent & phased manner, by way of imports and trading of various agro-inputs like Non-Urea Fertilizers, Certified Seeds, Agrochemicals, Bentonite Sulphur, City Compost through its existing PAN India dealer’s network under single window concept.

Marketing setup

NFL Marketing Network comprises of Central Marketing Office at NOIDA, four Zonal Offices at Bhopal, Lucknow, Chandigarh & Hyderabad, 15 State & 3 UT Offices and 35 Area offices spread across the marketing territory of NFL.

The company has 10 Soil testing laboratories (6 Static & 4 Mobile) with annual capacity of testing around 65000 samples for Macro Nutrients and 10000 samples for Micro Nutrients and are fully dedicated to the testing of soil health helping farmers to facilitate balanced fertilization.

Research Centers

The company has a R&D set up at each Manufacturing Unit i.e. at Nangal, Panipat, Bathinda and Vijaipur as well as at Corporate Office (Noida) which are primarily focused and undertakes various innovation studies to develop new, efficient & safer processes, value added products and suggest implementation of energy saving schemes.

Implementation of Energy Saving Schemes

In order to meet the new energy norms stipulated under NUP-2015, the company is already in the process of setting up Gas Turbine Generators along with Heat Recovery Steam Generation (HRSG) Unit at Panipat, Bathinda & Nangal Units with a total project cost of INR 675 crore. The GTG-HRSG plants have been commissioned at Bathinda and Nangal while at Panipat the GTG-HRSG shall be commissioned by Oct 2021 subject to mobilization of foreign experts at Panipat. Besides this, the company is also implementing energy reduction schemes at its Vijaipur Units to meet these new energy norms. Major scheme i.e. revamp of Ammonia syngas compressor & turbine has been implemented in September 2020 whereas balance schemes would be commissioned in a phased manner by December 2021.

Seeds Processing Plant at Bathinda, Panipat and Indore

The company has recently commissioned its two seeds processing plant at Bathinda and Panipat recently and one more plant at Indore is being set up. The company would be processing the seeds to be grown & harvested under its flagship Seed Multiplication Program which was otherwise being processed through outsourcing to third party. The total seeds processing capacity of the company after commissioning of all the 3 plants would be 1.20 Lakh quintals.

Setting up of manufacturing facilities for Agrochemicals at Bathinda

In order to make self-sufficient in Agro-Chemicals business, NFL is setting up an Agro-chemical manufacturing facilities at Bathinda with total Capex of the project approx. INR 12.57 crore.

The plant is expected to be completed during 2021-22.

Revival of closed Urea plant of FCIL at Ramagundam Plant in Joint Venture mode

The Company through a Joint Venture Company namely Ramagundam Fertilizers & Chemicals Limited (RFCL) along with EIL, FCIL and other partners for revival of closed Urea plant with annual installed capacity of 12.71 LMT. The cost of project was INR 6338.16 crore with equity participation of 26% each of NFL and EIL, 11% each of FCIL and State of Telangana, 14.3% of GAIL and 11.7% of a Consortium led by M/s HTAS, Denmark. The project was commissioned on 22-03-2021.

NFL has also been mandated to market 100% of Urea to be produced by RFCL.

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