Fertilizer and AdBlue producer SKW is threatened with a manufacturing cease – Muricas News

One of many largest fertilizer producers in Germany, SKW nitrogen works Piesteritz in Wittenberg, is threatened with a manufacturing cease and short-time work in view of the fuel disaster. The reason being the extraordinarily excessive fuel costs and the fuel surcharge, mentioned a spokesman for the corporate on Wednesday in Wittenberg. The broadcaster MDR Saxony-Anhalt had beforehand reported about it. The power disaster hit the corporate extraordinarily onerous. Manufacturing requires plenty of fuel.

SKW now has to pay a fuel levy of EUR 30 million per thirty days. That can't be accomplished financially. The corporate is demanding reduction from the levy. It’s not about being most popular. “It’s about staying internationally aggressive,” mentioned the spokesman. “If all the pieces stays the way in which it's now, we can be pressured to register short-time work by October 1 on the newest,” he mentioned. That may have an effect on virtually all the roughly 860 jobs at SKW.

Far-reaching penalties

“Brief-time work would imply that each one manufacturing would then must be shut down,” he mentioned. This may have critical penalties for the economic system in Germany, for suppliers, corporations and plenty of households within the structurally weak area. SKW is the biggest producer of ammonia and urea in Germany. It's thus an necessary producer of fertilizers for agriculture linked to the meals sector.

AdBlue can be produced at SKW. The urea resolution is used within the exhaust fuel aftertreatment of diesel engines and reduces the emitted nitrogen oxides by as much as 90 %. Virtually each truck within the forwarding, logistics and transport business in Germany runs on diesel. “The autos additionally deliver the groceries to the supermarkets,” mentioned the spokesman. SKW belongs to the Czech group Agrofert (Prague).