Outokumpu Technology will design and deliver a sulphuric acid plant complex at Ras Az Zawr, Saudi Arabia. The Saudi Arabian Mining Co. (Ma’aden) and Outokumpu Technology’s joint venture company Middle East Metals Processing Co. Ltd have signed the Phase 1 contract for the engineering of three sulphuric acid plants on the 1st of May, 2006. The project will be executed in two phases with project implementation and construction starting at the end of 2006. The overall investment cost is USD 240 million out of which the core technology package directly subcontracted to Outokumpu Technology will be 50%. The new plant complex will have a total production capacity of 13,500 tonnes per day of sulphuric acid. Ma’aden will use the whole acid production for its manufacture of phosphate based fertilizer. The plant complex will be operational in 2009.
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