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Equipment installation continues on the construction site of Nakhodka Mineral Fertiliser Plant continues to install equipment. The second, heaviest column – low-pressure methanol concentration column – has been placed on its foundation. It weighs 490 tonnes, its height – 62 metres.

‘We have picked up a good pace and in some types of work we are not just on schedule, but ahead of it. If we continue to following the schedule we will reach the design capacity within the designated timeframe. This means that more than 227 billion roubles of investment will be poured into Primorye economy by 2028. Of these, 48.2 billion roubles have already been invested,’ said Viktor Grebenyukov, Executive Director of NFP.

At the end of September, a ship with four methanol synthesis columns arrived at the port of Nakhodka. One of them – methanol stabilization column – is already standing on its foundation.

‘NFP, as an anchor resident of the Nakhodka Priority Development Area, enjoys necessary benefits and preferences, significant infrastructure support, as well as free customs zone procedure to supply necessary equipment to the project. We comprehensively support the project, assist in staffing the enterprise, and actively work together with the investor to ensure that one of the largest production facilities in Primorye starts production within the scheduled timeframe,’ says Alexey Dunayev, Director of Far East Development Corporation Primorye.

Currently at NFP construction site, in addition to installation of equipment, excavation works are nearing completion and the pace of construction and assembly works is picking up. Over 5 thousand people are working on the project and more than 200 units of machinery are involved. Most of the contractors are local businesses. The plant will soon provide stable employment for 1.5 thousand people.

After the launch of production, the plant will synthesise 1.8 million tonnes of methanol per year from natural gas.

NFP is one of the top ten largest investment projects in Russia and one of the top three investment projects in the Far East. The project is another step in Russia’s transition from a commodity-based economy to the export of high-tech industrial goods.