Three of the largest producers in Europe have suspended AdBlue production as a result of high gas prices. This has already caused the prices of this essential product to start to rise for many diesel vehicles.
The increase in the price of energy is generating panic in many companies in multiple industrial sectors, which have begun to cut or even stop their production as a result of the high electricity and gas costs.
This is the case of three large European companies producing AdBlue, the Slovak Duslo, the Italian Yara and the german SKW Piesteritz, which as a result of the high price of gas have decided to suspend their activity temporarily.
Some European carriers such as Moravskoslezsky Denik are already paying double for the supply of AdBlue
This already causes an increase in the prices of AdBlue, the commercial name of an additive specifically created by the German Association of the Automobile Industry and that we can also find under other names used by different oil companies, such as Blue + in the case of Repsol or EcoBlue in the case of Cepsa.
The composition of AdBlue is 32.5% urea and 67.5% demineralized water, which makes it a NOx reducing agent in collaboration with the SCR system, a Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) element used by modern diesel-powered vehicles to meet the stringent EURO 6 anti-pollution regulations, which came into force in 2014.
Price increase… shortage?
In several European cities, users have already started to buy AdBlue in large quantities to avoid running out of it, since vehicles that use it cannot circulate without it. Do you want to know more about what happens when the car runs out of AdBlue? Do not miss this article prepared on the matter.
All this has meant that some European carriers such as Moravskoslezsky Denik are already paying double for the supply of AdBlue and, following the announcement of Duslo, the Slovak government has commissioned 500,000 liters of this additive for exclusive sale to carriers in the country.
At the moment, it is unknown how long this situation will last, so many fear that with the passing of days it will begin to occur. AdBlue shortage in European markets.