Azot (Cherkasy)
Azot PrAT, doing business as Cherkasy Azot, is a Ukrainian manufacturer of nitrogen fertilizers. Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash's chemical-industry holding corporation, Ostchem Holding, manages the company as well as several other fertilizer manufacturers in Ukraine and other post-Soviet states.
Azot serves both the domestic and export markets. Products are primarily ammonia and ammonium salts, but also include certain specialty ion-exchange resins.
The plant's name, Azot, is Ukrainian for "nitrogen", and Cherkasy is the location of its chemical plant.
Overview
The plant began construction in 1962. On March 14, 1965, it released the first batch of liquid ammonia. By 2011, the company controlled 43 subdivisions on at the southern outskirts of Cherkasy city. These facilities have the capacity to produce up to 3 million tonnes of fertilizers per year, which can then be exported worldwide.Products include:
- weak nitric acid
- granular ammonium nitrate
- ammonia, liquid or aqueous
- prilled urea
- urea-ammonium nitrate solution
- ammonium sulphate, aqueous or crystalline
- caprolactam, crystalline or liquid
- liquefied carbon dioxide, and
- ion-exchange resins, including annionite AV-17-8 and cationite.