SABIC plans maintenance shutdown at Safco IV
23 January 2008 14:22 [Source: ICIS news]
LONDON (ICIS news)--Saudi Arabian fertilizer producer Saudi Basic Industries Corp (SABIC) will close its Safco IV plant in Al-Jubail this week for planned maintenance work, a company source said on Wednesday.
The unit, which has a capacity of 1.1m tonnes/year of granular urea, will be shut down this week for around a month. Exact dates were not disclosed.
SABIC said its contract customers would not be impacted by the work as it was scheduled and had been prepared for in advance.
SABIC was fully committed for the first quarter of 2008, shipping to destinations including
Other Middle Eastern fertilizer producers include
By: Carl Roache
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