Efforts Made to Consolidate Self-Supporting Foundation of Chemical Industry

Pyongyang, March 28 (KCNA) -- Officials and workers in the chemical industry of the DPRK are striving to consolidate the independent foundation of the core industry.
The Ministry of Chemical Industry took scientific and practical measures to step up the readjustment and reinforcement projects planned for this year and are pushing ahead with the work for implementing them.
The most suitable and efficient plan for establishing a new technical process of nitrogenous fertilizer production was successfully decided, and the relevant technical preparations are under way.
Meanwhile, the work to raise the capacity of bases for the production of nitrogenous fertilizer to the maximum by rationally improving their production processes is intensifying, and the practical steps are being taken accordingly.
The Namhung Youth Chemical Complex is making preparations to install compressors while speeding up the construction of a process for producing more efficient functional plastic sheets.
The Hungnam Fertilizer Complex is pushing ahead with the projects conducive to realizing the domestic production of catalyst.
The February 8 Vinalon Complex is now accelerating the development of the Phungnam Mine, the technical upgrading of production processes and equipment and the expansion of capacity.
Officials, technicians and workers at the Sinuiju Chemical Fibre Mill, the Chongjin Chemical Fibre Mill, the Myonggan Chemical Factory and the Songyong Paint Factory have striven to build new production processes conducive to putting the chemical industry on a Juche basis. -0-