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Posted on August 13, 2025
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Add as preferred source on GoogleGrupa Azoty and Nitro-Chem partner to enhance explosives production, aiming to secure supply chains and increase Poland's defense capacity.
GDANSK (Reuters) -Polish state-run chemical group Grupa Azoty and explosives maker Nitro-Chem have signed a letter of intent to cooperate on the production of explosives, the companies said in a statement on Wednesday.
The cooperation with Nitro-Chem, a unit of state-owned defense group Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa (PGZ), aims to ensure the continuity of raw material supply chains for explosives and jointly seek funding for a new TNT plant.
Grupa Azoty CEO Andrzej Skolmowski said the company was building a new business segment in high-energy materials and wanted to expand its existing cooperation with Nitro-Chem to include the exchange of technical experience.
"We do not rule out a deeper involvement in the project," Skolmowski said in a statement.
Adam Leszkiewicz, CEO of Poland's largest defence company PGZ, said the company was determined to increase domestic ammunition production capacity as quickly as possible, noting that a project for three new factories was already underway.
Poland is planning to raise its defense spending to 5% of its gross domestic product by 2026, marking the highest defense-to-GDP ratio within NATO.
(Reporting by Rafal Nowak; Editing by Matt Scuffham)
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