Sittard, The Netherlands-Stamicarbon, the licensing and IP Center of Maire Tecnimont S.p.A., has signed a license agreement with Tierra del Fuego Energia Y Quimica S.A., an Argentina-based company controlled by shareholders from China. The agreement concerns a urea synthesis plant and a urea granulation plant with a capacity of 2,700 mt/d to be built in southern Argentina. Stamicarbon will deliver the PDP (Process Design Package), the proprietary equipment, and associated services for both the synthesis and the granulation plant. The plants will be built by China Chengda Engineering Co. Ltd. of China. Start-up is planned in 2012. The plants will be located in the proximity of the city of Rio Grande in Tierra del Fuego, an archipelago of the southernmost tip of the South American mainland, across the Strait of Magellan.
Transparency Across the Fertilizer Value-Chain