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- Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers & Chemicals Limited Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers & Chemicals Limited manufactures and markets fertilizers, industrial chemicals and related products. The company produces fertilizers including Urea, Nitrophosphate, Neem De-oiled Cake, Narmada Neem Pesticides; traded fertilizers such as Diammonium Phosphate, Muriate of Potash, Single Super Phosphate, Ammonium Sulphate and City Compost; industrial chemicals comprising Methanol, Acetic Acid (Glacial), Toluene Diisocyanate (TDI), Aniline, Concentrated Nitric Acid, Weak Nitric Acid, Formic Acid, Ammonium Nitrate (Melt), Ethyl Acetate, Methyl Formate, OTD/MTD, Nitrobenzene, Catsol, Technical Grade Urea and other products like Limestone Powder, Caustic Lye, Liquid Nitrogen and Sodium Hypochlorite. GNFC operates primarily from its manufacturing complex at Narmadanagar in Bharuch, Gujarat, India, with marketing networks across Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, serving farmers through Narmada Khedut Sahay Kendra outlets and exporting chemicals to international markets; it also provides agricultural extension services including soil testing, tissue culture plants, demonstration farms and farmer education programs. Founded in 1976 as a joint sector enterprise promoted by the Government of Gujarat and Gujarat State Fertilizers & Chemicals Ltd., GNFC commenced operations in 1982 with one of the world's largest single-stream ammonia-urea complexes and has since diversified into chemicals, energy, electronics and information technology. In recent developments, GNFC signed a memorandum of understanding with INEOS in 2024 to form a 50:50 joint venture for constructing a 600,000 tonnes per annum world-scale acetic acid plant at Bharuch, expected to commence operations by 2028 to reduce India's import dependency, building on a nearly 30-year technology partnership.