The Cambodian International Five Star Fertilizer Company on August 2 signed an agreement with China’s Jiangsu Right Machinery Group to transfer technologies for fertilizer production in the Cambodia capital city of Phnom Penh.
Two production chains equipped with new liquefied urea technology will be installed for the 65 million fertilizer plant which is jointly invested by Vietnam’s Five Star Group (FSG) and the Cambodian Investment and Development company of Vietnam, a subsidy of the Bank for Investment and Development.
As the first modern plant in Cambodia, it expects to produce 500,000 tonnes of fertilizers per year with more than 40 kinds of high-quality products, including environmentally-friendly NHK, organic fertilizers which contribute to balancing the ecological environment and bring about high productivity. It is expected to be put into operation by the end of 2011.
With 20 years in operation, the FSG is working on various projects, including a fertilizer plant in the southern province of Long An which began operating in 2006 with a capacity of 300,000 tonnes per year./.