national fertilizers limited

company profile

NFL, a Schedule �A� & a Mini Ratna (Category-1) Company was incorporated on 23rd August 1974 for setting up two Fuel Oil / LSHS based Urea plants at Panipat & Bathinda with annual capacity of 5.11 LMT each which commenced production in the year 1979. Nangal plant of Fertilizer Corporation of India was also merged with NFL in 1978 (with present annual installed capacity of 4.785 LMT of Urea) after re-organization of FCI group of plants. Subsequently first inland gas based plant on HBJ gas pipe line was set up by the company at Vijaipur in district Guna (Madhya Pradesh) with re-assessed annual capacity of 8.65 LMT which commenced commercial production in July 1988 and thereafter the capacity of this plant was doubled by commissioning of its expansion plant in the year 1997. In line with the directives of GoI, the company revamped its three Fuel Oil plants at Panipat, Bathinda & Nangal for changeover of its feedstock from Fuel Oil to eco-friendly fuel i.e. natural gas with a total investment of Rs. 4066 crore during the year 2013 which not only reduced the energy consumption / carbon footprints but also helped in reducing the subsidy burden on GoI. The company also revamped its both the plants at Vijaipur in the year 2012 for capacity augmentation and energy saving which has enabled the company to produce Urea beyond re-assessed capacity of the plants to improve the profitability of the company. The present annual installed capacity of the company is 35.68 LMT of Urea.

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