Aqaba, Jan. 8 (Petra) – Chairman of the Jordan Phosphate Mines Company (JPMC), Dr. Mohammed Thneibat, Wednesday checked on a number of the company’s industrial and service investment projects in the city of Aqaba.

In the first leg of his tour, Thneibat inspected the operations of the project to produce phosphate feed additives (monocalcium phosphate (MCP) and dicalcium phosphate (DCP), which the company is implementing, in cooperation with the “Sinokrot Poultry Farms and the Saudi Poultry and Dairy Technology Company, at an investment cost of about JD40 million for all stages, and its production capacity is 100,000 tonnes annually.

Thneibat said the project will contribute to enhancing the JPMC’s revenues and provide 120 job opportunities for the local community in the first phase.

Thneibat stressed the peoject’s importance in enhancing the company’s efforts to focus on transformation industries and creating products with a “high market value” that boosts its competitiveness in the regional and global phosphate fertilizer market and reach new destinations.

Thneibat pointed out that the project will also contribute to enhancing Aqaba’s position as an “attractive” area for investments within the framework of the Economic Modernization Vision, stressing the company’s keenness to support national plans to diversify investment projects, especially in the phosphate fertilizer manufacturing field.

Then, Thneibat inspected the company’s advanced ambulance center project to provide “modern” ambulance and emergency services to its workers in its industrial complex in Aqaba and the southern industrial zone in the city.

The center, which is equipped with modern equipment, can accommodate 10 beds and will contribute to supporting national efforts to improve health care services provided to workers in this area, he noted.

Concluding his tour, Thneibat was briefed on the work of the third phase of the “Project of Vegetating (Greening) the Gypsum Mountain and the ongoing preparations to plant 20,000 trees in this stage, which will start on February 15.

The company previously completed the first and second phases, which comes in line with the Royal vision to preserve the environment and achieve sustainable development, and planted 30,000 forest and fruit trees, reaching 50,000 trees in total.

Thneibat added that the project will contribute to enhancing Aqaba’s importance as a tourist attraction city, and constitutes an outlet for the city’s people and visitors.

The project, he stated, comes within the framework of the company’s environmental sustainability plan as a “top” priority for this purpose and develop greening areas within its work sites to become friendly development areas.
//Petra// AG
08/01/2025 16:52:09