Low Harvest

Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers (RCF) operates in two segments: fertilizer and industrial products. The fertilizer segment markets under the trade name NP & NPK complexes under the Suphala 15:15:15 brand, Ujjwala urea, Microla micronutrients and Biola and Sujala brands. The industrial segment produces methanol, methylamines and derivatives, ammonium nitrate, sodium nitrate/nitrite, ammonium bi-carbonate and formic acid. The company has two plants in Maharashtra with an annual installed capacity of manufacturing over 2 MMT of urea, over 1.4 MMT of ammonia, 0.4 MMT of complex fertilizers and 72,600 MT of methanol amongst others. Strengths RCF has monopoly in manufacturing of Dimethyl Formamide (DMF). The industrial chemicals segment produces basic chemicals such as Methanol, Sodium Nitrate, Sodium Nitrite, Ammonium bicarbonate, Methylamines and Dimethylacetamide. Growth is likely to come from th

This article was originally published on March 21, 2014.