Idea Soda Ash and Calcium Chloride Company (ISACC) has commissioned Jacobs Engineering to build a soda ash and calcium chloride production facility at a cost of $293.3 million in Jubail, Saudi Arabia.??
According to reports, the facility will be the first in the Kingdom and Gulf region to produce sodium carbonate and calcium chloride.
?ISACC, the founding company of Jubail Inorganic Chemicals Industries Company, confirmed that the unit is expected to have a total annual capacity of up to 800,000 tonnes.?? The commissioning production run is scheduled to start by the end of 2014 and commercial operations will follow in the first quarter of 2015.
??The industrial complex is viewed as an example of the progress being made in the development of Saudi Arabia’s non-oil economy and diversification of the Kingdom’s revenues. Furthermore, the project will contribute to the reduction of unemployment in the Kingdom by providing more than 800 job opportunities.