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Owner General Fertilizer Company (GFC)

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Location Syria
Background Subsidiary of General Establishment of Chemical Industries (GECI)
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www.gfcsy.com

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News January 31, 2019 - When the economic sector has become characterized by political and military features in the world of the Syrian conflict, Syrian agriculture has entered into a whirlwind that has made it the most affected part in that conflict. This is in addition to the suspension of the activities of the General Fertilizers Company in Homs and then its discontinuous operation resumption, in a way that has made the farmers lose their balance, and look for alternatives of a company that has been servicing the agricultural sector throughout Syria and that has become today under unhidden Russian hands.  The General Fertilizers Company in Homs has gradually resumed its operations since mid-2017 by launching its three plants (Ammonia Urea Plant, Ammonium Nitrate Fertilizer Plant, and Phosphate Fertilizer Plant) after suspending its activity for more than two years. General Fertilizers is the largest chemical industrial complex in Syria and it secures the agricultural sector’s needs of all types of fertilizers.  The General Fertilizers Company produces various types of fertilizers for agricultural production in Syria, most notably the fertilizers of Urea, Ammonium Nitrate and Phosphate. The company then delivers the produced fertilizers to the Agricultural Cooperative Bank, which in turn sells them to farmers at a subsidized price, in accordance with the available plan in each season.  However, with the suspension of the General Fertilizers Company’s activities in 2015 due to the lack of production requirements, including gas, phosphate, electricity and spare parts, the local agricultural market lost several types of fertilizers, mainly the Urea. This has negatively affected the quantities and quality of production, and prompted the farmers to resort to the black market.  Among many other Russian investments in Syria, we find OAO Stroytransgaz, which owns shares in GFC. The Russian company has signed a renewable contract with the government of the Syrian regime in November 2018, to exploit the Syrian Fertilizer Company and its three plants for 40 renewable years.  Under the contract, OAO Stroytransgaz will re-maintain the three plants, and will commit to boost its productivity, until reaching the plants’ design capacity within two years. Thus, the Syrian Fertilizers Company’s share of profits will be 35 percent compared to 65 percent for the Russian side, according to the terms of the contract published by governmental newspaper, Tishreen.  The Director General of the General Establishment for Chemical Industries, Usama Abu Fakhr, told Tishreen newspaper that the aim of the Russian investment in the company is to reach the design capacity, which is estimated at 1,600 tons of fertilizers per day. The Russian company is then entitled to export fertilizers abroad.  The General Fertilizers Company (GFC), which is the largest chemical industrial complex that believes in the need of the agricultural sector in Syria, has three factories for the production of agricultural fertilizers: Ammonia Urea Plant, Ammonium Nitrate Fertilizer Plant and Phosphate Fertilizer Plant, which were affected during the war years in Syria.  The Phosphate Fertilizer Plant was officially activated on January 3, after completion of maintenance work of production lines.  The plant resumed work on December 19, and started production on the 30th of the same month, to monitor the production situation, which reached 400 tons per day of Phosphate Fertilizer necessary for agriculture in Syria, according to the Provincial Council of Homs.  The Phosphate Fertilizer Plant comprises three sections: Sulphuric acid, Phosphoric acid and fertilizer production. These sections were reactivated after the General Fertilizers Company received quantities of raw phosphates from the Sharqiyah Phosphate mines in Palmyra countryside.

 

December 1, 2017 - Industry Minister Ahmad al-Hamo affirmed during a tour of the plant that resuming production in the plant came after securing the raw materials needed for it, hailing the efforts of all employees of the company and their insistence to stay in their company to provide the needs of the farmers.He pointed out to the importance of producing this type of fertilizer during this period of the year, which coincides with the start of the agricultural season as all kinds of crops need this type of fertilizer, stressing that the second line of the plant will take off during the next month.The superphosphate fertilizer plant produces 20 tons of fertilizer per hour and the load will be gradually increased to reach 25 tons.

July 21, 2017 - Prime Minister Imad Khamis and the accompanying governmental delegation visited on Friday the General Fertilizer Company (GFC) and the ammonia-urea and cal-nitro fertilizer plant in Homs province.  Primer Khamis affirmed that the fertilizer plants back online is a great achievement that would not have been possible without the victories of the Syrian Arab Army who liberated the gas fields from terrorism, which led to an increase in the quantities of the produced gas that is required for the plant to run.  For his part, Industry Minister Ahmad al-Hamo pointed out resuming production the plant, which has a production capacity of 900 tons per day, was achieved in record time thanks to the efforts of workers, noting that the production of ammonia-urea will meet the needs for agriculture sector.  In turn, the Director of the General Establishment for Chemical Industries Osama Abu Fakher said that the General Fertilizers Company constitutes about 65% of the size of the General Establishment for Chemical Industries, adding that the 2018 production plan aims at producing 150,000 tons of urea fertilizer, 100 thousand tons of phosphate fertilizer, and 160 thousand tons of cal-nitro fertilizer.

MTPD - Metric Tonne per Day           STPD - Short Ton per Day
MTPA - Metric Tonne per Annum      STPA - Short Ton per Annum
SA - Single Absorption
DA - Double Absorption
 

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