Coromandel’s Rs 1,000 cr plants in AP to go live in two years
At a recent event, executive chairman Arun Alagappan was present for the groundbreaking ceremony while S Sankarasubramanian, executive director, nutrient business, signed the key contracts with global tech partners
Coromandel International Limited has commenced Phosphoric Acid-Sulphuric Acid complex facility at Kakinada.
CHENNAI: Coromandel International Limited has commenced the project activity to set up its Phosphoric Acid-Sulphuric Acid complex facility at Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh.
At a recent event, executive chairman Arun Alagappan was present for the groundbreaking ceremony while S Sankarasubramanian, executive director, nutrient business, signed the key contracts with global tech partners. With an estimated outlay of Rs 1,000 cr, the project is to be commissioned in two years’ time.
The proposed 650 ton per day (tpd) Phosphoric Acid facility is designed with advanced DA-HF (Dihydrate Attack-Hemihydrate Filtration) process technology and automated DCS system. This will enhance company’s backward integration capacities and provide stable supplies of phosphoric acid for its fertiliser manufacturing by replacing more than 50 per cent of Kakinada plant’s imported acid requirement.
The company also plans to set up an 1,800 tpd sulphuric acid plant to meet the captive needs in phosphoric acid manufacturing besides augmenting power from the waste heat generation. Phosphoric acid and sulphuric acid are used as key intermediates for manufacturing phosphatic fertilizers like DAP and NPKs.
Company’s fertiliser plants at Visakhapatnam and Ennore are fully integrated with captive Sulphuric and Phosphoric acid facilities and the proposed expansion plan at Kakinada will make this unit also an integrated complex. With a capacity of around 2 million tons, Coromandel’s Kakinada plant is the India’s second largest phosphatic fertiliser facility, contributing close to 15 per cent of nation’s NPK fertiliser output.
Alagappan said “Over the past few years, we have been building our upstream supply chain with investments in mining project and creating intermediate products’ capacity at Visakhapatnam for phosphoric and sulphuric acid.”
Coromandel has signed contracts with tech partners Prayon, Belgium for DA-HF process tech for phosphoric acid manufacturing and with MECS, USA for DCDA process tech for sulphuric Acid manufacturing. It has also signed a contract with thyssenkrupp UHDE for detailed engineering of phosphoric acid and sulphuric acid projects.