Technip to build Brazil fertiliser plant for Ultrafertil

15 December 2000 14:08  [Source: ICIS news]

LONDON (CNI)--A turnkey contract worth about $20m (Euro22.5m) to design and build a phosphate fertiliser plant in Brazil has been won by Krebs Engenharia, the Brazilian affiliate of French engineering contractor Technip.

Technip said Friday that the contract, awarded by Ultrafertil (a member of the South American Fertifos group), covers basic and detailed engineering, equipment procurement, construction and start-up.

The 350 000 tonne/year capacity single super phosphate (SSP) plant will be located at Cataleo, about 250 kilometres (156 miles) south of Brasilia in Goais State, and is scheduled to come onstream in September 2001.

Technip said the new plant will be built near Fertifos' local phosphate mine and will help the group strengthen its presence in the growing, and increasingly competitive, phosphate fertiliser market in Goias.

Fertifos has been a client of Technip for over 25 years and uses the company's technology in its phosphoric acid facilities. Technip said that contracts recently handled for Fertifos included sulphuric acid and phosphoric acid units brought onstream at Uberaba, Brazil in 1998.

By: Neil Sinclair
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