CHATTOGRAM, April 4, 2020 (BSS) – Chattogram Urea Fertilizer Factory
Limited (CUFL) has resumed its production after 13 months closure due to
mechanical defects and gas crisis.
The largest fertilizer factory of South Asia began its production of urea
fertilizer again on Friday night after overcoming technical faults and
solving gas crisis.
CUFL operator Master Bazlur Rahman Bhuiyan confirmed it to BSS on
Saturday.
He said that the CUFL authorities stopped the production of CUFL on March
20 in 2019 due to mechanical defects and gas crisis.
Bhuiyan said the factory was opened on March 26 last, a year after the end
of Retubing (repairing). Ammonia was being produced from April 1 and the
production of urea fertilizer started at 11.40 pm last night (Friday), he
said.
At present 31 to 32 metric tons of fertilizer can be produced per hour, he
said adding that production of fertilizers would be increased to 60 to 65
metric tons per hour when the production starts in its full capacity.