HIP Azotara
The HIP (Hemijska Industrija Pančevo) Azotara is the biggest fertilizer plant in Serbia, with a potential production capacity of 1,750,000 t/year. Being founded in 1962, it is the first of the three SZIC industries to be built and to go into industrial operation. A navigable canal, two kilometres long, connects the plant/facility with the Danube and provides the most economic transportation of products and raw materials. As the main fertilizer factory of Serbia, Azotara potentially has a good market position for national supply of fertilizers and other nitrogen basic products. The factory, covering an area of approx 127 hectares near Pančevo, produces both basic chemicals for fertilizers production, as ammonia and nitric acid, and fertilizer products as urea, CAN fertilizers (CAN stands for calcium ammonium nitrate) and NPK fertilizers (NPK stands for nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium).
NIS Oil Refinery
The NIS Oil Refinery is the biggest oil derivate producer of Serbia and the largest refinery in the ex Yugoslavia. The refinery, located in an extremely favourable location only 2 km from the Danube river, mostly processes imported crude oil (80% of intake) which is delivered by way of an oil pipeline through Croatia (pipeline capacity is 6 million tons per year) and by ship on the Danube from direction Romania and Hungary. It has a potential processing capacity of 4.8 million tons of crude per year even if, at present, it is reported to work at an average capacity of 3 million tons of crude oil per year.
The NIS Oil Refinery, whose construction took place between 1968 and 1975, is a fuel type refinery, which produces fuels, solvents, bitumen and feedstock, mainly for the petrochemical industry.
HIP Petrohemija
The HIP (Hemijska Industrija Pančevo) Petrohemija is the biggest producer of petrochemical products in Serbia and is the only national producer of polyethylene. Production may cover all domestic market and half of production is exported. The petrochemical complex, whose construction started between 1971 and 1974, is located 2 km from the Danube river and covers approximately 170 hectares of the industrial zone of Pančevo. It comprises eight plants, including an ethylene plant, high and low density polyethylene plants, chloro-alkali electrolysis plant, vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) plant, polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plant, an utility plant and a wastewater treatment plant. The production capacity amounts to 500,000 t/year of products as polyethylene, polyvinyl-chloride, plastics, ethylene, propylene, C4 and pyrolitic oil and gasoline and 200,000 t/year of the other required products.