NARSINGDI, Bangladesh, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) — Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has inaugurated the South Asian nation’s largest and first-ever inexperienced fertilizer manufacturing unit as building work of the Ghorashal-Polash Urea Fertilizer Project is accomplished.
Construction of the challenge began in 2020, and the China National Chemical Engineering & Construction Corporation Seven Ltd. (CC7), in collaboration with its Japanese associate Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), had been striving for the mega challenge to be accomplished as scheduled.
With an estimated annual manufacturing capability of 800,000 tons of granular urea and 500,000 tons of anhydrous ammonia, officers mentioned the manufacturing unit, situated in Narsingdi district, 51 km northeast of the capital metropolis of Dhaka, will assist Bangladesh meet a rising demand for fertilizer in its efforts to make sure meals safety.
Speaking on the launching ceremony on Sunday, Hasina mentioned it’s Bangladesh’s first fertilizer plant able to capturing carbon dioxide, thus growing the nation’s urea fertilizer manufacturing by 10 p.c.
The manufacturing unit will assist scale back fertilizer imports and generate jobs, added the prime minister.
Yi Bingyin, basic supervisor of the Chinese firm CC7, informed Xinhua on the web site that the challenge was confronted with many challenges throughout its implementation, however the firm and its associate have collectively overcome the difficulties, with their friendship deepened.
The challenge is predicted to make nice contribution to the native agriculture and financial growth, Yi mentioned.