Chambal Fertilizers temporarily shuts down urea plant in Kota

Chambal Fertilizers and Chemicals Ltd, a part of the KK Birla group, has shut down one of its urea plants at the Gadepan facility in Kota, Rajasthan. “One of the company's urea plants at Gadepan, District Kota, Rajasthan has been shut down from February 08, 2015. The shutdown of the plant (Gadepan-II) is necessitated due to unfavorable policy of the Government of India for production beyond 100% capacity of the plant for the financial year 2014-15,” said Chambal Fertilisers & Chemicals Ltd in a BSE filing.
 
The company has decided to carry out routine maintenance activities during the shutdown period. The plant is expected to resume operations during last week of March or first week of April 2015, according to Chambal Fertilisers’ filing.
 
Chambal Fertilisers and Chemicals Limited, one of the largest private sector fertiliser producers in India, has two nitrogenous fertiliser (urea) plants are located at Gadepan having a combined capacity to produce about 2 million MT of urea per annum. While the first plant (Gadepan-I) was commissioned in 1993 and second plant (Gadepan-II) came on-stream in 1999.