Cairo - Mubasher: Global fertilizer giant Agrium, based in Canada, started the trial operations of both the first and the second production lines of Egyptian fertilizer company MOPCO, said Agrium Chief Executive Officer.
The project aims to produce 1.38 million tons of urea annually, through two production lines with production capacity of 650,000 tons each.
The urea production well be allocated between meeting the needs of local market and export's orders.
Meanwhile, MOPCO will produce 80,000 tons of ammonia on annual basis with investment cost totaling $1.96 billion, in order to meet the local market's demand.
In 2006,Agrium signed a deal with the Egyptian government to build a factory for the manufacture of ammonia-based fertilizers in Ras El-Bar, a middle-class coastal area close to the Damietta seaport. Plant construction began in 2008.
