The production of urea fertiliser at the state-owned Shahjalal Fertiliser Company Ltd (SFCL) in Sylhet has remained suspended for around last two months due to a mechanical glitch, causing daily loss of Tk 50 lakh.
The production has been suspended since January 8 when software of the gas turbine went out of order, said an official at the industry’s engineering department on condition of anonymity.
“The factory’s engineers tried to fix it several times but failed,” he said adding that it took around two months to collect machinery from abroad to fix it.
However, the equipment finally arrived in the country on Thursday.
The factory with a capacity of producing 1760 tonnes used to produce 1500 MT urea fertiliser along with ammonia as a by-product every day before its closure.
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Mohammad Ziabul Hossain, managing director at the SFCL, told UNB that they would be able to go for the production within five to six days as the maintenance works are going on upon arrival of machinery from abroad.
The authorities concerned informed that the fertiliser factory has not been failing to meet its target of production due to repeated closures on different grounds since it went for production in 2016.
The SFCL was established at a cost of Tk 5500 crore in 2012 alongside the dilapidated Natural Gas Fertilizer Factory Ltd (NGFL) in Sylhet.