20.15  Manufacture of fertilisers and nitrogen compounds

active

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

Also includes

• 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

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

What changed from NACE Rev. 2

Unchanged: NACE Rev. 2 class 20.15 maps 1:1 to NACE Rev. 2.1 20.15 with the same heading.

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