QAFCO-6 Project to be Inaugurated Next Tuesday

Doha, December 04 (QNA) - Qatar Fertilizers Company (QAFCO) has announced that it will launch next Tuesday the QR 2.2 million QAFCO-6 Expansion project t Mesaieed Industrial City. QAFCO Board Chairman Abdul Aziz bin Ahmed Al-Malki said in remarks contained in a press release issued by the company today that QAFCO 6 which is the sixth plant for the production of urea at QAFCO took 35 month to build by a consortium of Italian Sabiam and South Korean Hyundai companies. He added that QAFCO 6 will play a significant role in pushing forward the economic development in the State of Qatar, stressing that the new project comes in the context of the national income diversification for benefiting from the country's huge natural gas reserves and as part of QAFCO's ambitious plan of development and modernization. It is worth mentioning that the initiative idea of QAFCO-6 project was based upon QAFCO s successful business experience in the course of the last 4 decades, and the encouraging national vast reserve of natural gas. Having these potentials, QAFCO has taken upon itself the task of drawing up an ambitious future vision to ensure further development of the company. In this context the idea of initiating QAFCO-6 project, has come up.(QNA)