Cairo – President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi inaugurated on Wednesday (15) the fertilizer complex belonging to El Nasr Company for Intermediate Chemicals in the industrial zone of Ain Sokhna, close to the Suez canal. Pictured above, the Egyptian president participating in the inauguration ceremony.
The complex includes six factories that have a total production capacity up to 1.7 million tons, including factories to produce ammonia (400,000 tons/year), liquid urea (300,000 tons/year), granulated urea (300,000 tons/year), nitric acid (165,000 tons/year), ammonium nitrate (200,000 tons per year), and calcium ammonium nitrate (300,000 tons/year).
The Egyptian president estimated that the total implementation costs were higher than USD 800 million, and it took the state four years to inaugurate complex. The project was implemented by German industrial engineering and steel production multinational conglomerate ThyssenKrupp AG in partnership with Egypt’s Petrojet.
Speaking at the complex’s opening, Board chairman of El Nasr company Ehab Abdel Samie said his company has inaugurated two factories for the production of medical and industrial gas and a tri-generation power plant in the chemical industries complex in Abu Rawash, Giza governorate.
He further noted that today, the inauguration of the new industrial complex brings the total number of industrial complexes of the company to four.
The factories of the complexes of El-Nasr company have a total production capacity up to 1.7 million tons per year of phosphate, potassium and nitrogen fertilizers with surplus being exported to nearly 56 countries, according to official statements.
The ceremony was attended by prime minister Moustafa Madbouly; minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation, Al-Sayed El-Quseir; minister of Defense and Military Production, Mohamed Zaki; Petroleum and Mineral Resources minister Tarek El-Molla, as well as a number of ministers and senior statesmen.
Translated by Georgette Merkhan & Guilherme Miranda
