Stamicarbon, Sittard-Geleen, The Netherlands, reported the completion of the stripper for Egypt’s El Nasr Company for Intermediate Chemicals’ (NCIC) new urea melt plant, which will be part of a nitrogen fertilizer complex under development at Ain El Sokhna, around 100 km southeast of Cairo.
The stripper was completed at Schoeller-Bleckmann Nitec GmbH facility in Austria.
The urea melt plant has planned capacity of 1,050 mt/d.
Stamicarbon’s client is Germany’s Thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions, which is the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contractor for NCIC’s planned new ammonia, urea, and CAN facility (GM March 22, 2019). The plant will have capacity to produce 440,000 mt/y of ammonia, 380,000 mt/y of urea, and 300,000 mt/y of CAN, with start-up targeted for 2022.
Thyssenkrupp is realizing the project in a consortium with the Egyptian company Petrojet.