General Contractor Selected for Fertilizer Complex in Jordan

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar, Land, Texas)--Jordanian fertilizer manufacturer Jordan Phosphate Mines Company Limited (AFM:JOPH) (JPMC) (Amman, Jordan) and joint venture partner Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited (IFFCO) (New Delhi, India) have selected MID Contracting Company (Amman) as the general contractor for construction of a grassroot fertilizer complex in Eshidiya, Ma'an, Jordan.

SNC Lavalin Group Incorporated (TSX:SNC) (Toronto, Ontario) has been awarded the engineering and construction contract. SNC is utilizing its Toronto and Brussels offices for the $625 million project. The Toronto office is responsible for the sulfuric acid unit, while the Brussels office is overseeing the phosphoric acid unit. Site preparation is almost complete, and both SNC and MID continue to release the remaining contracts for the construction and equipment installation for the phosphoric acid and sulfuric acid units.

The facility will be the second fertilizer complex in Jordan for JPMC. The phosphoric acid unit will have a production capacity of 500,000 metric tons per year, and the sulfuric acid unit will produce approximately 4,500 metric tons per day. Both products will be used in fertilizer applications. Production is scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2013.

JPMC began operations in 1949. The company owns and operates three mines in Jordan. JPMC is the only company in Jordan that mines phosphates, deposits of which cover 60% of Jordan. The company also owns and operates a chemical complex in Aqaba that produces phosphoric acid, diammonium phosphate, sulfuric acid and aluminum fluoride.

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