 "Sanmar Group selects Nuberg to set up calcium chloride plant in Egypt")
The Chennai headquartered Sanmar Group has awarded a contract of $ 20 million to Nuberg Engineering to build a calcium chloride plant in Egypt on EPC (engineering, procurement, & construction) and LSTK (lump sum turnkey) basis. TCI Sanmar, a part of the Sanmar Group, is in process of setting up a mega chemical complex, with an investment of $ 1.5 billion, in Port Said (Egypt) for future business growth.
The plant, which will have production capacity of 135,000 tonnes per annum (TPA), is scheduled for commissioning by the end of 2017. Nuberg’s scope of work includes plant design, detailed engineering and procurement of complex chemical equipment for TCI Sanmar for the anhydrous calcium chloride pellets/granules production at its site in Port Said.
Russia’s Zirax will be responsible for the transfer of technology for production of liquid & anhydrous product and for providing basic engineering & technical regulation documents.
The calcium chloride plant is a part of Sanmar’s already existing chemical complex, incorporating caustic soda plant, EDC (ethylene dichloride), VCM (vinyl chloride monomer) and PVC (polyvinyl chloride) plants. This chemical complex produces hydrochloric acid (HCl) which will be used to manufacture calcium chloride.
TCI Sanmar chemicals has established world class plants for manufacturing 200,000 TPA of PVC and 275,000 TPA of caustic soda at Port Said (Egypt). These are the largest capacities in the MENA (Middle East & North Africa) region. The company has already invested $ 1.2 billion in its facilities at Port Said and in phase 2 of the project the company will invest another $ 300 million taking the total investment to $ 1.5 billion. After the completion of phase 2 the PVC plant capacity will double to 400,000 TPA and a new calcium chloride granule plant with a capacity of 135,000 TPA will come up.
The calcium chloride from the chemical plant will be supplied mostly for the purposes of the markets of North & South America, Western Europe, Middle East and Africa.
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“The start-up of new calcium chloride granules production plant, which we will build up together with Nuberg and Zirax, will significantly raise TCI Sanmar’s revenues and also allow us to expand our product portfolio,” commented K Satyanarayana Rao, managing director, TCI Sanmar Chemicals SAE.
“We are quite happy of our cooperation with Zirax for TCI Sanmar’s calcium chloride plant and we suppose that our this experience in Port Said will consolidate our relationship for joint performance as in current project and in other future possible projects with a high professional involvement to meet the requirements of new customers,” said A K Tyagi, chairman, Nuberg Engineering.
Mikhail Petrushin, general director, Zirax, added, “The cooperation with such respectful and professional client and partner as TCI Sanmar and Nuberg will allow us to provide efficient application of our experience and knowledge in high quality anhydrous calcium chloride pellets production for different purposes of worldwide calcium chloride market which, from our point of view, feels shortage of high quality product.”