NACE 20.15—Manufacture of fertilisers and nitrogen compounds

Where 20.15 sits

1. C Manufacturing
2. 20 Manufacture of chemicals and chemical products
3. 20.1 Manufacture of basic chemicals, fertilisers and nitrogen compounds, plastics and synthetic rubber in primary forms
4. 20.15 Manufacture of fertilisers and nitrogen compounds

What 20.15 includes

• Manufacture of fertilisers: • straight or complex nitrogenous, phosphatic or potassic fertilisers • urea, crude natural phosphates and crude natural potassium salts
• Manufacture of associated nitrogen products: • nitric and sulphonitric acids, ammonia, ammonium chloride, ammonium carbonate, nitrites and nitrates of potassium
• Manufacture of potting soil mixtures of natural soil, peat, sand, clays and minerals, with nitrogen, phosphorus or potassium as an essential constituent
• Manufacture of other fertilisers by the mixing or chemical treatment of animal or vegetable products

What 20.15 excludes

• Mining of guano, see 08.91
• Manufacture of agrochemical products (e.g. pesticides), see 20.20
• Manufacture of liming agents, see 20.59
• Production of waste compost, see 38.21

20.15 in other systems