

Repeating the past performance, the National Fertilisers Limited (NFL) has set a new production record of 38.59 lakh Million Tonne (MT) of urea in 2018-19 with a capacity utilisation of 119.4 per cent. This is the fourth successive year when NFL has broken its own production records. All the plants of the company have achieved more than 100 per cent capacity utilisation. Of all NFL units, the Vijaipur Unit achieved the highest capacity utilisation at 125 per cent and produced 21.6 lakh MT urea. While the Bathinda Unit set a new record of 5.84 lakh MT at 114.2 per cent capacity utilisation, the Panipat Unit also broke all the previous records with a production of 5.74 lakh MT at 112.2 per cent capacity. The company’s vintage plant at Nangal also produced 5.41 lakh MT urea with a capacity utilisation of 113 per cent. Among the industrial products category, the Nangal Unit also produced 81,053 MT nitric acid, the best ever in the history of this unit.