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India GNFC shuts ammonia, urea plants due to tech snags

Sat Jul 5, 2008 7:51am EDT

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MUMBAI, July 5 (Reuters) - Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers Co Ltd (GNFC) (GNFC.BO) said on Saturday it shut several manufacturing units, including those making ammonia and urea, due to technical problems at its ammonia unit.

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Operations at other units making methyl formate, formic acid, acetic acid, ammonium nitrophosphate and toluene di-isocynate have been stopped due to the glitch that hit the Ammonia unit on July 3, Gujarat Narmada said in a statement.

The company said it expects to stabilise operations at all these plants in 8 to 10 days.

No-one was injured, the company added. (Reporting by Bharghavi Nagaraju, Editing by Peter Blackburn)

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