GSFC to restart some plants next week

State-run Gujarat State Fertilizers and Chemicals Ltd(GSFC) has decided to restart some plants at its Vadodara unit from next week.

“The ammonia Plant IV will begin start-up activities from April 6 (Monday). The plant will run at 55% load,” GSFC on Tuesday said in a filing to the BSE.

The Urea-II plant will start on April 10 and production of urea will begin on April 11 at partial load. “The plant will be loaded up gradually to 100%. The ammonium sulphate Plant-1 will start its operations on April 11,” the company added.

The decision to restart these plants was taken after the company management according to directives of the central government recently reviewed the starting up of fertilizer manufacturing plants at the Vadodara and Sikka(Jamnagar) facilities.

“All precautions are being taken with respect to hygiene and safeguarding employees against Covid-19,” the company added.