February 22, 2013
Indorama to build largest fertiliser plant in Nigeria
Indorama Petrochemicals Ltd. is planning to set up Africa's largest fertiliser facility in Eleme, Rivers state, Nigeria.
The management declared that all plans have been concluded towards the setting up of the plant in Rivers state.
According to Managing Director of the company, Mr Manish Mundra, the project was part of the company's effort towards making Nigeria the largest petrochemical location in Africa by the year 2017. He also said that a Chinese company, Toyo Engineering ltd, would handle the project and equally get its feed stock from natural gas.
During a visit by the National Good governance team to Indorama in continuation of its project tour in the state, the MD said that the plant will be designed to produce 1.4million tonnes of fertiliser annually.
He added that the plant would be involved in the production of Urea, NPK and other types of fertilisers if work is concluded as planned, hence that production would start by the fourth quarter of 2015.