Police is known for its titanium white installation, the only such unit in the country, as well as its large output of ammonium and acids (phosphoric and sulphuric). The company is also a major producer of multi-component mineral fertilizers, accounting for 50% of all such fertilizers produced in Poland, and a leading exporter – about half of its produce is sold abroad.

Profiting on waste
This May Police started up Poland’s only iron sulphate II drying installation. Iron sulphate II is a side-product of titanium white. This drying line will enable Police to profit on about 40% of its iron sulphate annually, at the same time it will cut down the amounts of stored sulphate by more than 30%, which will considerably decrease storage costs.
This installation, which employs a new technology to utilize drainage produced in the course of gyrating the iron sulphate (the drainage is returned to the titanium white process) cost PLN 16.7 million, of which half was put up by the National Environment Protection and Water Economy Fund.
“This installation is a step further towards better environment protection. For many years now ecology has been a priority at Police, and the best proof that we are trustworthy in this respect is the fact that the Environment Protection Fund agreed to co-finance the project. Nonetheless we’re basically a profit-seeking enterprise, and the product we hope to obtain by drying iron sulphate II will be a useful addition to our market offer”, says Police President Ryszard Siwiec.
Dried iron sulphate II is used by chemical industry as a reductor (e.g. to neutralize cyanide solutions, or in the cement branch to reduce sexavalent chromium), in the production of water-improvement and sewage-cleansing coagulants, and for iron-based pigments. In agriculture it is a fertilizer and fodder component.
Another of Police’s environmental projects is a volatile ash processing unit opened in 2007. Police’s Thermal Electric Plant II operates two coal dust-fuelled energy boilers which produce more than 30 thousand tons of ash annually. Now 99.82% of boiler fumes is cleansed by electrofilters and the ash stored in a 600 m3 tank. Afterwards, instead of disposing of the ash it will be forwarded to construction plants which use it as an additive to cement and other building materials. The fully automated installation meets all environmental norms and emits no ash during reloading.
Under an agreement with the EnergoMineral company run by Germany’s STEAG, EnergoMineral will collect volatile ash from Thermal Electric Plant II, which will then be forwarded to production plants that have uses for it. As a result Police’s storage costs will be cut in half, future plans also foresee that EnergoMineral will collect our ash free of charge. We will further save more than PLN 0.5 million annually on environmental fees. The installation cost PLN 1.5 million and was financed by EnergoMineral. In future EnergoMineral may also process another of our side products, slag.

In the user’s interest
Police products also help their users to care for the environment. A good example is Distarpol, a 32.5-percent urea solution used to de-pollute engine fumesintroduced in 2007.
In keeping with EU environmental requirements Diesel trucks over 3.5 tons must be equipped with nitric oxide reduction systems based on SCR technology, which uses urea. Police plans to turn out 50,000 tons of Distarpol annually (the European annual demand for urea used in SCR technology is estimated at 1.3 million tons), as well as 60,000 tons of granulated uncoated urea which can be used for the solution and is easier to freight.
Thanks to Distarpol Police will be able to expand its urea offer, urea production will also become independent of seasonal demand in agriculture. Also, Distarpol’s high quality has made it a sought-after product in the glue and resin branch and motor industry.
The above-described investments are part of Police’s strategy of minimizing environmental damage in all its projects and undertakings. In recent years the company has spent an average PLN 10 million a year on environment protection.
The company’s constant efforts to ensure the highest environmental safety norms and its strivings to promote environmental care have won it the Responsible Care Certificate, the World Environment Centre Certificate (for a waste recultivation technology unique on a world scale), and Environment-Friendly Company and Polish Ecology Sponsor titles.