The Japan Plant Association said today it has ordered an export mission to visit Israel this July to explore the possibility of building two fertilizer factories there.
A spokesman for the Association, which promotes Japanese plant equipment exports, said Israeli trade officials who were in Tokyo earlier this year suggested the project. He said the Israelis had proposed that the Japanese construct urea and ammonium sulphate factories in Israel, each capable of producing 50,000 to 100,000 tons of fertilizer per year.
The Association’s three-man export mission is now in Brazil negotiating the construction of similar fertilizer plants. It is headed by Shinorku Nakao, a former board member of the giant Sumitoto Chemical Company. The mission will proceed to Peru when it leaves Brazil in June, to discuss technical cooperation in building area factory there.
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