OREANDA-NEWS. Over 9 months of 2007, Novomoskovsk Enterprise MCC “EuroСhem” increased production of granulated ammonium saltpeter in comparison with the same period of the previous year, namely by 10,5% (output amounted to 747,8 thousand tons), the Eurochem press service reported.
Total amount of produced ammonium saltpeter including solution from the beginning of the year is 869.37 thousand tons which is 4.6% more than the indicator of the previous year.

In connection with execution of the scheduled major repair at one of the ammonium saltpeter workshops as well as ongoing modernization of production, the production volume of ammonium saltpeter dropped and amounts now to 95,2% of the past year level. In total, the company has produced 1.108 million tons of ammonium from the beginning of the year.

Output of nitrogen fertilizers (in terms of 100-percent content of nutrient substances) amounted to 589,7 thousand tons (plus 0,7% compared to the year 2006). Notwithstanding the ongoing reconstruction of the workshop Carbamide-3, total production volume of carbamide since the beginning of the year corresponds to the level of the previous year and amounted to 622.5 thousand tons.  The steady growth of volumes of products output was demonstrated by separate workshops of chlorous production. Thus, output of natrium hypochlorite amounted to 16,49 thousand tons (growth by 13,6%); granulated calcium chloride – 4,36 thousand tons (increase by 16,9%).

Volume of methanol produced from the beginning of the year is 234,5 thousand tons which corresponds to the last year level (an increase of 0,5%).
Production of argon was also maintained at the level of the last year (since the beginning of the year 7.71 thousand tons were produced).

Over 9 months 4.8 thousand tons of carbon dioxide wwere produced, which exceeds the last year result more than twice.