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JSC «Gomel Chemical Plant» currently specializes in producing highly efficient complex fertilizers: «Ammophos», «Ammonized Superphosphate» and nitrogen-phosphorus-potassium fertilizers of various grades. In 2008 the company launched the production of liquid nitrogen-phosphorus-potassium (NPK) fertilizers. Different grades of NPK have different К₂О, Р₂О₅ and N ratios in their chemical compound.  They are essentially a complex of basic elements needed to be introduced into the soil and, thanks to a large number of grades of fertilizers of this kind it is possible to choose the fertilizer’s optimum chemical composition to match any crop.

Nowadays, intense and stable land use is only possible through enhanced regeneration of the soil’s fertility and the environmental safety of soil-enhancing procedures. These should be aimed at achieving and maintaining optimum parameters for the soil’s principal agrochemical properties which allow for harvesting large amounts of crops and for covering the expenditures on fertilizers, as well as at warranting the appropriate level of environmental safety.

In 2009 the plant initiated the production of various grades of nitrogen-phosphorus-potassium complex fertilizers based on four basic grades: 16-16-16, 8-19-29, 8-24-24, 10-19-25. It should be noted that these fertilizers’ chemical compositions contain secondary elements (sulfur, magnesium, sodium) and microelements (boron, zinc, iron etc.). Complex fertilizers containing additives of microelements and biological agents, possess good physical properties, with their granules durability increased by 10-15% and 100%-level friability. Using these fertilizers it is possible to raise crops by 15-20% and to lower the content of nitrates, radionuclides and heavy metals in the products by 25% on average.

Aside from that, the plant produces “Anhydrous Sodium Sulfite” (of technical and photographical grades). This product is used in leatherworking, pharmaceutics, chemical and textile industry as well as for sewage treatment.

Gomel’s chemists also produce goods that are used in various spheres of production. For instance, technical artificial КП-grade cryolite is used to produce glass, ceramic goods and abrasives. Technical aerosyl is used as a filler material in the composition of carbamide-formaldehyde glues, in woodworking industry for producing glued wooden materials. Technical aluminum fluoride is applied in non-ferrous metallurgy for aluminum production using the electrolytic method, in the production of building materials, ceramics and glass. Sulfuric acid’s area of application is oil processing, metallurgy, metalworking and other industries. Sulfuric acid is also used in the production of mineral fertilizers, various mineral slats and acids, organic products and explosives (electrolyte for lead-acidic accumulators).

The «Azophos» fungicide produced by the Gomel plant is a new environment-friendly and efficient agent against the plants’ fungus diseases. Apart from that, it provides for foliar fertilizing, for better product safety and for the crops’ increased yielding capacity.

The «Roundup» herbicide has a broad application spectrum, being designed for 1-lobular, 2-lobular, annual and perennial weed and tree/bush plants control.

Gomel Chemical Plant also produces such substances as complex fodder additive, phosphogypsum, air partition products (industrial and medical oxygen).

But the company is not going to rest on its laurels. Cooperating closely with scientific research and project institutes and with various foreign companies, the plant’s specialists use their experience and knowledge to enhance the products’ quality. The range of produced complex fertilizers is increasing constantly by introducing various modifying additives with a broad range of effects into their chemical composition (these include macro- and microelements – Ca, Zn, S, Na, Cu, Mo, B, Mg, J, Fe, Mn etc, -  plant growth controllers, biological agents, inhibitors, fungicides etc). In brief, the company aims to considerably increase the share of complex fertilizers in the overall production, with a gradual increase in the output of packed products.

The plant has already mastered the techniques necessary to produce new types of fertilizers for the soil with average-level fertility with regards to biological peculiarities of specific crops on an experimental and industrial scale. For instance, batches of fertilizers were produced for: potatoes, spring crops (16-12-20 with a biological agent) and winter crops (5-16-35 with a biological agent), vegetables (10-20-20), flax (6-21-32 with the addition of boron and zinc), sugar-beet (14-12-11 with S, Сa, Na, B), etc.

Petrochemistry To Agriculture

Maximum satisfaction of Belarusian agriculture’s demands, increasing the output of exported goods, securing their competitiveness, lowering production costs are the main goals and tasks for the leaders of JSC «Gomel Chemical Plant» and all of its personnel. And now this experience has its effect: now they’re sure that, using the complex approach of that kind, the plant can become offer indispensable help to an agricultural company in every aspect that is, one way or another, related to enriching the soil with nutritional substances. This is mostly why the plant set up the production of complex NPK-fertilizers aimed at specific crops and practically with any set of macro- and microelements depending on the buyer’s desire. This is due to the fact that the usage of complex composite fertilizers in agriculture worldwide has increased lately, while the usage of the single-effect and low-concentration-level fertilizers has diminished. Intensive techniques of cultivating crops also include using biostimulators and microelements alongside the balanced introduction of basic nutritional elements.

The main advantages of complex fertilizers as compared to the single-effect ones are: the opportunity to introduce fertilizers with a balanced proportion of nutritional elements for the crops, lower costs of storing and introducing, lower anthropogenous load on the soil.

The presence of all the basic elements of plants nutrition – nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, - as well as microelements, in a single granule provides for more balanced distribution of the elements in the soil, optimized conditions of the plants’ nutrition, lower soil density and, most of all – all the nutritional elements are introduced in a determined proportion, which ultimately raises the yielding capacity.

It’s worth mentioning that, after years of research, the scientists from the RUC «Soilworking and Agrochemistry Institute of Belasrusian NSA» have come to the conclusion that applying complex NPK-fertilizers with biological agents and microelements as an additive augments the crops’ yielding capacity by 15–20 % as compared to the effect of conventional fertilizers. Applying new types of delayed-effect composite fertilizers to the country’s sod-podzol soil ensures that the loss of nitrogen in the wash-out process is lower by 20-35% (as compared to the standard types of fertilizers), the loss rate of potassium in the same case is lower by 15-30 %, for water-soluble humus, calcium and magnesium the same rate is lowered by 20 %, which reduces the pollution of surface and subterranean water by nitrogen-chlorine-sulfur-containing chemical compounds.

This leads us to the conclusion that protecting the environment is one of the top concerns for the Gomel Chemical Plant. Here a great deal of attention is paid to establishing wasteless production, reducing the amount of solid, liquid and gaseous waste. All the main shops producing mineral fertilizers operate according to the zero-discharge technique.