Consolidating its role as a major supplier to the country’s industrial explosives ecosystem, Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers and Chemicals (GNFC) has approved the long-awaited Ammonium Nitrate (AN) Melt-II project, adding 163,000 MTPA of new capacity — a 94 per cent expansion over its existing capacity.

Once commissioned around July 2027, GNFC’s total AN Melt availability will rise to 338,000 MTPA, nearly doubling its output in one of India’s most critical inputs for mining and infrastructure explosives. The company emphasised that the new AN Melt unit is aligned with its upstream project sanctioned in August last year, ensuring synchronised capacity ramp-up. “This project is a downstream project for which upstream was already approved sometime in August last year. And the effort is to

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