Introduction
NFL, a Schedule ‘A’ & a
Mini Ratna (Category-I) Company, having its registered office at New Delhi was
incorporated on 23rd August 1974. Its Corporate Office is at
NOIDA (U.P). It has an authorized capital of Rs. 1000 crore and a paid up
capital of Rs. 490.58 crore out of which Government of India’s share is
74.71 % and 25.29 % is held by financial institutions & others.
Vision & Mission
The company has a Vision i.e.
“to be a leading Indian company in fertilizers and beyond with commitment to
all stakeholders” and a Mission “to be a dynamic organization committed to
serve the farming community and other customers to their satisfaction through
timely supply of fertilizers and other products & services; continually striving
to achieve the highest standards in quality, safety, ethics, professionalism,
energy conservation with a concern for ecology and maximizing returns to
stakeholders”.
Manufacturing Plants
NFL has five gas based
Ammonia-Urea plants viz. Nangal & Bathinda plants in Punjab, Panipat plant
in Haryana and two plants at Vijaipur at District Guna, in Madhya Pradesh. The
Panipat, Bathinda & Nangal plants were revamped for feed stock conversion
from Fuel Oil to Natural Gas, an eco-friendly fuel during 2012-13 / 2013-14.
Vijaipur plants of the company were also revamped for energy savings &
capacity enhancement during 2012-13, thus increasing its total annual capacity
from 20.66 LMT from 17.29 LMT, an increase of 20%. The company currently has a
total annual installed capacity of 35.68 LMT (Re-assessed capacity of 32.31
LMT) & is the 2nd largest producer of Urea in the country
with a share of about 16% of total Urea production in the country.
Company has a Bio-Fertilizers
Plant at Vijaipur with a capacity of 600 tonnes of solid & liquid
Bio-Fertilizers to produce four strains of Bio-Fertilizers viz. PSB, ZSB, Rhizobium
and Azotobacter are produced.
Products
NFL is engaged in
manufacturing and marketing of Neem Coated Urea, four strains of
Bio-Fertilizers (solid & liquid), Bentonite Sulphur and other allied
Industrial products like Ammonia, Nitric Acid, Ammonium Nitrate, Sodium Nitrite
and Sodium Nitrate. The brand name of the company is popularly known in the
market as ‘KISAN’.
The company has also started
production of certified seeds under its Seeds Multiplication Program for sale
under its own brand name as Kisan Beej.
Imports & Trading
Apart from manufacturing
business, the company is also expanding its business, in a consistent &
phased manner, by way of imports and trading of various agro-inputs like
Non-Urea Fertilizers, certified seeds, Agrochemicals, Bentonite Sulphur, City
compost through its existing PAN India dealer’s network under single window
concept.
Marketing setup
NFL Marketing Network
comprises of Central Marketing Office at NOIDA, four Zonal Offices at Bhopal,
Lucknow, Chandigarh & Hyderabad, 15 State & 3 UT Offices and 35 Area
offices spread across the marketing territory of NFL.
The company has 10 Soil
testing laboratories (6 Static & 4 Mobile) with annual capacity of testing
around 65000 samples for Macro Nutrients and 10000 samples for Micro Nutrients
and are fully dedicated to the testing of soil health helping farmers to
facilitate balanced fertilization.
Research Centers
The company has a R&D set
up at each Manufacturing Unit i.e. at Nangal, Panipat, Bathinda and Vijaipur as
well as at Corporate Office (Noida) which are primarily focused and undertakes
various innovation studies to develop new, efficient & safer processes,
value added products and suggest implementation of energy saving schemes.
Implementation of Energy
Saving Schemes
The company has recently implemented
various energy saving schemes such as Purge gas recovery plant at Vijaipur-II,
hooking up of old redundant Ammonia Synthesis Converter (S-200) with New
Converter (S-300) at Panipat & Bathinda Units and additional 2 nos. cooling
tower cells in Urea Plant at Vijaipur-II. The company has also commissioned two
roof top solar plants of 100 KW & 90 KW at Corporate Office, Noida and
Bathinda Unit.
Further, in order to meet the
strict energy norms fixed by GoI under New Urea Policy 2015 w.e.f. 01-04-2020,
though the investment is economically unviable without suitable dispensation as
sought by NFL from GoI, the company is implementing energy saving schemes i.e.
Installation of Gas Turbine Generator along with Heat Recovery Steam Generation
Unit at Panipat, Bathinda & Nangal Units with an estimated cost of Rs. 675
crore.
The company is also going to implement energy saving schemes at Vijaipur-I & II with investment of Rs. 235 crore to further bring down the energy consumption.
Investment Undertaken
1.
Seed processing plants at Indore, Bathinda and
Panipat.
Investments Envisaged
1.
Agro Chemical
plant at Bathinda for production of farm insecticides.
2.
R&D
initiative with M/s IARI, New Delhi to design & develop an applicator &
logistic arrangement for application of Urea Ammonia Nitrate (UAN) which is
envisaged to be manufactured at Nangal Unit.
3.
Urea revamp at
Panipat & Bathinda Units to improve Urea quality and reduce energy
consumption.
Joint venture
NFL in collaboration with M/s
EIL and M/s FCIL has formed a Joint Venture (JV) Company as Ramagundam
Fertilizers & Chemicals Limited (RFCL) to revive the old FCIL plant at
Ramagundam. The equity participation in the joint venture is 26% each by NFL
& EIL, 11% by FCIL, 11% by State Government of Telangana, 14.3% by GAIL and
11.7% by HTAS consortium. This plant shall have the annual Urea capacity of
12.71 LMT. The zero date of the project is 25th September 2015 and is targeted
to be completed by May 2020. The project is in progress.
Agriculture Extension Services
The company is also playing a
pivotal role in extending various agricultural extension services such as
educating the farmers on judicious use of fertilizers along with total know-how
on improved and scientific methods of cultivation to improve soil productivity.
The company is providing support to the farmers by undertaking soil analysis
for Macro & Micro Nutrients through its static & mobile soil testing
vans for balanced use of fertilizers.
The company participates in
various Krishi Melas organized by leading agriculture universities for direct
& effective communication with farmers.
Sustainable development
Towards sustainable
development, NFL has taken various initiatives in adopting best practices for
environment management, energy conservation and social upliftment. Some of them
include conversion of its three Fuel Oil based plants on natural gas which is a
cleaner and greener fuel, switch over of 'oil support' on 'gas' in coal fired
boilers, installation of 100 KW & 90 KW Solar Power Plant at Corporate Office
and Bathinda unit. The company has also replaced conventional lights with LED
lights at its Plants, Offices and Townships towards its attempt to reduce the
carbon footprints.
Corporate Social
Responsibilities
The Company is equally
committed towards society by taking responsibility for the impact of their
activities on customers, employees, shareholders, communities and the
environment in all aspects of their operations. Besides focusing primarily on
the areas like Children Education, Women Empowerment, Health and hygiene, etc.,
the company also aims to conserve the natural resources for their efficient and
sustainable use. Company has taken initiatives in the area of water
conservation by renovation and maintenance of old and degraded water bodies, construction
of stop dams in the severe water deficient regions of Central India. Company is
also adopting focused approach for introduction of Non-Conventional sources of
energy by installing Solar Water heating systems, solar lights, solar lanterns
etc. in the old age homes and in the remote and backward villages where
electricity is the major problem.
Manpower Position
Total manpower of the company
as on 31-01-2020 was 3408 against 3387 as on 01-04-2019.
