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FERTILIZER

PHOSAGRO CEO TAKES PART IN THE UREA PLANT OF

LAUNCH OF A NETWORK OF SOIL KIMA IN EGYPT

LABS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND SUCCESSFULLY IN

NORTH AFRICA OPERATION

PhosAgro CEO Andrey Guryev partici- is the best time for all of us to come to-
pated in the launch of a regional network gether and take part in this global sus-
of soil laboratories in the Middle East tainable agriculture initiative”, said Mr.
and North Africa (RESOLAN NENA) as Mansur in thanking Mr. Guryev and Pho-
part of a joint project with the UN’s Food sAgro for their assistance in implement-
and Agriculture Organization (FAO). ing initiatives related to the creation of
RESOLAN NENA will be part of a RESOLAN.
global network of 368 soil laboratories PhosAgro’s CEO, in turn, thanked the Recently the performance test of the
launched in November 2017 in order to FAO for the honor of being the first Rus- newly built ammonia-urea complex of
facilitate the exchange of experience sian company selected to implement a Egyptian Chemical & Fertilizers Indus-
between laboratories from all around global soil protection initiative. try – KIMA was successfully completed
the world and to implement a program “The goals of PhosAgro and of the FAO and the plants were handed over to the
to develop soil science. are in complete accord: to guarantee customer. This was a joint project of Tec-
At the regional level, the network will populations access to safe, high-quality nimont as an EPC contractor and Stami-
facilitate interaction between new and food; to give farmers the opportunity to carbon as urea technology licensor, two
existing laboratories created within the make effective use of their land by grow- sister companies within the Maire Tecn-
project with the aim of providing support ing environmentally friendly products, imont Group.
to farmers on sustainable agriculture, as and to protect the soil from degradation
well as collecting information for the and destruction”, said Mr. Guryev in his
development of global standards in this opening remarks to the heads of region-
field. al laboratories.
The regional network will include 53 He noted that guided by the UN’s Sus-
laboratories from 19 countries, includ- tainable Development Goals, PhosAgro
ing Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, helps ensure food security in Russia and
Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Moroc- around the world: PhosAgro’s high-per-
co, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, formance, environmentally friendly fer-
Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, the United Arab tilizers are in high demand in more than For the project teams, it was a chal-
Emirates, and Yemen. Other states in the 100 countries spanning all of the world’s lenge, working in difficult conditions of
region will join the network in the future. inhabited continents. Covid-19. Stamicarbon employees man-
Eduardo Mansur, Director of the FAO’s “Given the project’s potential, PhosA- aged to support KIMA in such a way that
Land and Water Division, noted that the gro will continue to support the FAO in they were able to run the plant properly
creation of RESOLAN NENA is a very creating a single global mechanism to and meet the guarantee figures, while
important step that will help coordinate promote technology and knowledge in the Stamicarbon staff returned home just
actions to ensure sustainable land use at the area of sustainable agriculture. before the lockdown and assisted them
the regional and global levels. “We will make every effort to ensure further via digital communication tools.
“Given the environmental problems that the project continues to make head- The Tecnimont team stayed on site and
associated with global warming, as well way, thereby helping farmers grow clean had to take special precautions and find
as the socio-economic problems stem- crops efficiently and without accumulat- new solutions to secure the health and
ming from the COVID-19 pandemic, now ing pollutants in soils”, said Mr. Guryev. safety of personnel. The success laid in
the fact that all helped each other 24/7
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and worked as one team!
The fertilizer complex consists of:
• a 1200 ton/day ammonia plant, using
KBR’s Purifier technology
• a 1575 ton/day urea melt plant, using
Stamicarbon’s Pool Reactor Design
• a 1575 ton/day urea granulation
plant, using Stamicarbon’s Granulation
Design
The plants are situated in the indus-
trial area in the Aswan Governorship in
Upper Egypt. With this project, Stamicar-
bon now has 10 urea plants licensed and
in operation in Egypt and the next one is
already being designed!.
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