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- Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers Limited (RCF) manufactures and markets fertilizers and industrial chemicals in India. The company produces a range of fertilizers including neem-coated urea, complex NPK fertilizers such as Suphala 15:15:15, bio-fertilizers like Biola, 100% water-soluble fertilizers under the Sujala brand, and micronutrient fertilizers like Microla; it also offers industrial chemicals comprising ammonium nitrate melt, ammonia, ammonium bicarbonate, dilute and concentrated nitric acid, sulphuric acid, methylamines, methanol, sodium nitrate, sodium nitrite, dimethyl formamide, dimethyl acetamide, formic acid, argon, nitrogen, gypsum and phosphoric acid. RCF operates manufacturing facilities at Trombay and Thal in Maharashtra, provides soil testing and farmer training services, and publishes RCF Sheti Patrika for farmers; it serves domestic agricultural and industrial markets primarily in India. Founded in 1978 through the reorganization of Fertilizer Corporation of India and headquartered in Mumbai, the company functions as a central public sector undertaking under the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, with the Government of India holding a 75% stake. In recent developments, RCF awarded a Rs 1,000.27 crore lump-sum turn-key contract to Larsen & Toubro in October 2024 for a 1,200 MTPD complex fertilizer plant at Thal, scheduled for completion in 27 months; it also contracted Topsoe in July 2024 for Rs 514.6 crore ammonia plant modernization at Thal to boost energy efficiency over 36 months. In November 2025, the board approved Q2/H1 FY2026 results showing H1 PAT of Rs 159.81 crore, and Ms. Nazhat J. Shaikh, Director (Finance), assumed additional charge of Chairman and Managing Director effective January 1, 2026, for six months.