Moroccan OCP switches Safi solid fertilizer to TSP

19 January 2007 14:53  [Source: ICIS news]

LONDON (ICIS news)--Moroccan fertilizer giant OCP has informed customers that it is changing production at its Safi complex and will switch solid fertilizer production entirely to triple superphosphate (TSP), market sources said today.

Shippers said OCP would not be taking any more feedstock ammonia into Safi from January.

The Safi complex has been producing monoammonium phosphate (MAP) and nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium (NPK) fertilizers.

According to the company website, MAP production capacity at Safi totalled 400,000 tonnes/year and NPK production was 250,000 tonnes/year.

Sources said powder MAP output at Safi would cease, NPK production would switch to OCP’s complex at Jorf Lasfar and Safi would now export only TSP and phosphoric acid.

Before the switch, TSP capacity at Safi was about at 500,000 tonnes/year.

By: Stephen Mitchell
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