URALCHEM Expands its Range of Products

    MOSCOW, RUSSIA, October 20, 2011 /24-7PressRelease/ -- URALCHEM, OJSC has received a Russian state registration certificate for sodium nitrite E250 in addition to its registration with the European Chemicals Agency. Now the product can be used as a component in food additives.

The state registration certificate for URALCHEM's first product for the food industry was signed by Gennadi Onishchenko, the Chief Medical Officer of the Russian Federation. The document was issued by the Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Well-Being of the Russian Federation on the basis of the experts' report by the Institute of Nutrition. It shows that the product meets the federal services sanitary, epidemiology and hygiene requirements. The certificate is valid across the Customs Union of Belarus, Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation.

URALCHEM's new product can be used to manufacture food additives that improve colour and can function as preservatives in meat and fish products. Azot Branch of URALCHEM can produce more than 17 000 tons of this product annually.

"Now the enterprise will be able to significantly expand its markets for sodium nitrite in addition to the metal treatment, rubber and paint industries, and successfully compete with foreign equivalents in the food industry as well," said the head the quality control of Azot Branch of URALCHEM, Igor Tsybulsky.

URALCHEM, OJSC is one of the largest producers of nitrogen and phosphate fertilisers in Russia and the CIS with production capacities of over 2.5 million tonnes of ammonium nitrate, 2.2 million tonnes of ammonia, 0.8 million tonnes of MAP and DAP, 0.8 million tonnes of complex fertilisers and 0.5 million tonnes of urea. URALCHEM, OJSC is the second largest ammonium nitrate producer in the world and number one in Russia, the second largest producer of nitrogen fertilisers in Russia. Key production assets of URALCHEM, OJSC include Azot Branch of URALCHEM, OJSC in Berezniki, Perm Region; MFP Kirovo-Chepetsk Chemical Works, OJSC Branch in Kirovo-Chepetsk, Kirov region; Voskresensk Mineral Fertilisers, OJSC in Voskresensk, Moscow region.

Website: http://www.uralchem.com

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