UK hospitals and food producers face CO₂ shortages as plant halts production

Company that produces 60% of country’s supplies says high energy prices are forcing planned shutdown

The government has urged CO2 producers “to do everything they can” to meet food and drink industry demand, after one of the UK’s largest suppliers confirmed it was going to pause production at a key factory.

CF Industries, the private US company that accounts for 60% of the UK’s CO2 supplies, said soaring energy prices meant it would have to “temporarily halt” production at its remaining UK ammonia plant, which creates the gas as a byproduct.

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