Thyssenkrupp AG, Essen, Germany, said on March 18 it had won an engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) order from Egypt’s chemical and fertilizer producer El Nasr Co. for Intermediate Chemicals (NCIC) for its planned new ammonia, urea, and CAN plant at Ain El Sokhna, around 100 km southeast of Cairo.
Thyssenkrupp is realizing the project in a consortium with the Egyptian company Petrojet.
The planned new facility is expected to go into operation in 2022 and will have capacity to produce 440,000 mt/y of ammonia, 380,000 mt/y of urea, and 300,000 mt/y of CAN. It is being built close to NCIC’s existing phosphate and compound fertilizer complex, and is part of the Egyptian producer’s plans to expand its current product portfolio to include high-quality nitrogen fertilizers for local and export markets.
Thyssenkrupp said it has planned and built 16 of the 17 existing nitrogen fertilizer plants in Egypt and put the order value of this latest contract in “the mid-three-digit million-euro range.”