Arab Potash Company

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Processing of the Dead Sea brine by the Arab Potash Company (APC) in Jordan traditionally utilizes solar evaporation and the hot leach process to produce potash. However, APCs current expansion involves pro-cessir by flotation followed by cold crystalkzation [109]. The Dead Sea brine typically axitains 11.5 g/1 KCl. 

Figure 5.30. Cold Crystalfization of CamalUte at the Arab Potash Company, Jordein.

In the Middle East, the first phase of expansion at Arab Potash Company of Jordan was completed in July 1994 with a capacity of 1.1 million tpy K2O. The second phase of expansion will result in a capacity of 1.34 million tpy K2O by 1998. Dead Sea Works, Israel, planned a capacity increase to 1.5 million tpy KgO by... 

At the end of 1998 Albemarle, Jordan Dead Sea Industries (Jodico) and Arab Potash Company (APC) signed a JV agreement to make and market bromine and bromine derivatives from a world scale complex to be built in Jordan near the Dead Sea. 

A major new facility for the manufacture of bromine intermediates such as tetrabromobisphenol A was developed in 2000-2002 in Safi, Jordan by the Jordan Bromine Company Ltd., a joint ventiue between an Albemarle subsidiary, the Arab Potash Company Ltd. and the Jordan Dead Sea Industries Company Ltd. 

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