OREANDA-NEWS. February 26, 2010. Nevinnomysskiy Azot, EuroChem’s subsidiary in Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol Territory, will install new safety equipment, including an air emission alarm system, remote control panels and product level monitoring devices. The new equipment is part of a project to improve safety at the Company’s plants.

The RUR16.3mln project was launched in January, and is scheduled for completion by the end of 2010.

Entitled “Integrated Industrial and Environmental Safety Activities,” the project includes the installation of special equipment in five shops designed to reduce the environmental burden, to improve working conditions for the plant’s employees, and to ensure safe operations of plant facilities most susceptible to fire hazards.

The project will also include a remote firing panel for five standby burners for the pyrolysis unit’s flare system in shop #8, and a light and sound air emissions alarm system will be installed at the entrance to the machinery rooms of block 831 in shop #9.

The acetaldehyde storage facilities at the butanol warehouse will be equipped with product level monitoring devices. Light and sound air emissions alarm units will be installed in the ammonia production shops and the ammonia warehouse.