After seeing the strict procedure, methodology and systematic approach with which Indorama – Nigeria has had unprecedented success story at its petrochemicals and plastics production in Eleme, Port Harcourt, with a fertiliser plant coming on stream in first quarter of next year (Q1 2016) in Nigeria, the Senegalese management team of Industries Chimiques du Senegal has asked the Indorama-Nigeria management to replicate similar operations at the ICS, which it (Indorama-Nigeria) has just acquired.
After undertaking separate visits by two sets of senior executives of the Industries Chimiques du Senegal to Indorama Eleme Petrochemicals Limited (IEPL) complex in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Ibrahima Gaye, director of mining at ICS, says to IEPL’s managing director, Manish Mundra to perform similar success story at the ICS when it fully begins operations there.
“We want Indorama Senegal to be world-class also,” says Gaye, while speaking on behalf of the ICS top executives team members. According to Indorama- Nigeria’s inhouse newsletter, “Indorama-Nigeria Impact,” the ICS was acquired by Indorama-Nigeria in August 2014, following a visit for Due Diligence on the 39-year-old Sulfuric acid and Phosphoric acid plant, with 6,000 and 2,000 tons per day (TPD) capacities, respectively.
Indorama is currently undertaking massive turnaround maintenance (TAM) of the plant, to bring the Senegal Sulfuric and Phosphoric acid production plant to global standard. Gaye, who was part of a four-man ICS top executives who toured IEPL’s Olefins plant, the Polyethylene and Polypropylene plants, the new 1.4 million metric tons fertiliser construction site, bagging warehouse and other facilities, says they want the Indorama-Nigeria management to replicate the same operational excellence at the ICS Senegal, now called Indorama-Senegal.
“We would follow the footprint of Indorama Eleme in making ICS a world-class company also. We will do our best to achieve more than what Indorama has done in Nigeria,” says the ICS director of mining. Other top executive members were: Jean Pierre Mendy, director of acid plants; Abdoulaye Drame, director of SEFICS, and Mame Mboye Sow, director of fertiliser plant.
The second ICS team which visited Indorama-Nigeria was made up of Mouhamed El Moustapha Fall and Babacar Fall, both from the maintenance departments. A historical review of the ICS showed that its parent company CSPT was established in 1960, for the business of phosphate mining, and all the rock phosphate was exported. In 1976 ICS was established for the business of acid mining.
Its first sulfuric and phosphoric acid plant was commissioned in 1984, with capacities of 1,900 tons per day (TPD) for sulfuric acid and 650 TPD for phosphoric acid. In 1996 ICS and CSPT were merged.
