UK-based AAA Holding Group Ltd. (AHG) is doubling DAP production capacity at the Southern Fertilizer Complex in Khor al Zubair in Iraq’s southern Basra governorate.
The new unit is already under construction and will expand DAP capacity at the plant from the current 500,000 mt/y to 1 million mt/y, according to AHG CEO Amet Selman. The plant produced Iraq’s first DAP in July last year. The three existing lines have a total capacity of 1,500 mt/d, or some 500,000 mt/y.
The new unit is targeted to be completed by the end of September this year. The additional output, as is the existing output, will be bought by Iraq’s Ministry of Agriculture under contract, according to Selman.
Phosphate rock feedstock for the plant is supplied from domestic deposits in the west of the country, where, according to local media reports, there are plans for “major investments” in phosphate mining.