thyssenkrupp’s Industrial Solutions business area has received a new order for the construction of a fertilizer plant in Poland. The customer for the project is ANWIL, a subsidiary of PKN ORLEN, one of the largest oil industry corporations in Central and Eastern Europe from Poland. The new facilities for the production of 1,265 metric tons of nitric acid and 1,200 tons of ammonium nitrate per day will be located in Wloclawek, some 200 km northwest of Warsaw, at an existing chemical and fertilizer complex. thyssenkrupp’s patented EnviNOx process will be used to remove greenhouse gases from nitric acid production.
The order includes the provision of technology licenses and the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) of the new facilities. The contract value is in the lower three-digit million euro range. The project is a substantial part of a larger investment program implemented by ORLEN to expand its fertilizer portfolio and open up new value chains in the petrochemical industry. By 2022, ORLEN aims to increase its fertilizer production capacity in Wloclawek by 50% to 1.461 MT per year to meet growing demand.
