Grupa Azoty has been included in the “National Champions” ranking prepared by the editors of Polityka Insight. The ranking comprises 15 largest Polish companies which stood out with the best results in four key categories: economy, industry, foreign operations and innovation.

During the 2021/2022 academic year, Grupa Azoty will be represented by six Ambassadors designated by the Group’s key companies. As in previous years, the Grupa Azoty Brand Ambassador programme, the main purpose of which to increase awareness of the Group’s activities and promote it within academic communities, attracted a large group of undergraduate and graduate students of various Polish universities looking to develop professionally in the industrial sector. The inaugural meeting of the programme’s 5th edition was held on December 8th.

The headquarters of Grupa Azoty S.A. in Tarnów hosted a meeting between the President of the Company’s Management Board Tomasz Hinc and representatives of the Tarnów region’s authorities and local self-governments. The talks concerned, among other things, the role of Grupa Azoty in supporting the region, promoting its culture, sports and widely defined social responsibility of business.

The Grupa Azoty Group has received the winner’s statuette in the Fertilizer Manufacturer category of a ranking compiled by the Wprost weekly. It has also taken the second place overall in the Golden 100 of Polish Agriculture ranking. On behalf of the Grupa Azoty Group the award was collected by Tomasz Hryniewicz, Vice President of the Management Board of Grupa Azoty S.A. and President of the Management Board of Grupa Azoty Puławy.

Two of the Grupa Azoty Group’s projects related to the hydrogen economy have been included in a pipeline of significant projects by the European Clean Hydrogen Alliance (ECHA). The proposed projects cover several areas of the hydrogen economy, including generation of hydrogen, production of ammonia, as well as production of hydrogen for a wide range of transport applications.

The last six months on the Polish fertilizer market was unlike anything producers, distributors and farmers have ever seen before on the Agro supply market. Record volatility and soaring prices of key feedstocks used in fertilizer production, namely natural gas, phosphate rock and potassium chloride, triggered an unprecedented, sharp growth of production costs, which in turn pushed up fertilizer selling prices.