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QAFCO (Qatar Fertiliser Company)
Founded in 1969 as a joint venture between the Government of Qatar and a number of foreign shareholders, QAFCO has evolved steadily over the past five decades as a world-class fertilizer producer. The country's first large-scale venture in the petrochemical sector, QAFCO was established to diversify the economy and utilize the nation's enormous gas reserve. QAFCO is owned 100% by Industries Qatar …
Profile
- Industry
- Crop protection, Bioprocess equipment
- Topics
- Crop protection chemicals & fertilizers
- Role
- Producer — “…as a world-class fertilizer producer. The country's first large-scale venture in the petrochemical sector, QAF…”
- Parent / group
- Industries Qatar (IQ)
- Why it is bioeconomy
- QAFCO is a major world-scale producer of ammonia and urea fertilizers, which are core products in the bioeconomy and agricultural sector.
- Found via
- [Rubric] Qatar · struvite
Bio-solutions it supplies 0
Not yet cited as a supplier in a graded solution.
What they offer
Subsidiaries: Gulf Formaldehyde Company (GFC) · Qatar Melamine Company (QMC)
News & status 6
- 2026-05 Latest status: Shiekh Khalid Bin Abdulla Al-Thani was appointed as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of QAFCO on May 10, 2026. ↗ ↗ ↗
- 2026-04-30 Qafco Q1 profits and output fall y-o-y due to disruption from regional conflictQafco’s Q1 results were constrained by regional conflict: IQ reported lower production volumes and higher costs, with no detailed disclosure on Qafco’s ammonia/urea output or prices, though overall fertilizer segment profit dipped about 10% year-on-year.
- 2026-02-09 QAFCO increases ammonia output with AI-based framework | Industry EMEAQAFCO (Qatar Fertiliser Company) is undertaking a long-term operational transformation to become the world’s leading urea producer by embedding AI into daily operations through the Cordant platform, focusing on process optimization, reliability-driven …
- 2026-02-17 Qafco 7 set to run as grey ammonia facility for whole of 2026Qafco 7 will operate as a grey ammonia facility for all of 2026, selling ammonia without carbon capture since the CCS plant is still under construction. commissioning targeted in Q2 2026.
- 2026-03-18 Not just energy: How the Iran war could trigger a global food crisis | US-Israel war on Iran News | Al JazeeraQAFCO (Qatar Fertiliser Company) is highlighted as the world’s largest urea supplier, and its role is pivotal because a prolonged fertiliser shortage could push up global food prices and threaten crop yields. In short: QAFCO dominates urea supply, so …
- 2026-07-02 MEED | Contractors submit bids for QatarEnergy urea facility expansionQafco (Qatar Fertiliser Company) will operate the new blue ammonia facility as part of its integrated complex, following the EPC award to Thyssenkrupp Uhde and Consolidated Contractors Company; the project aims to start operations this year.
- 2026-05-27 QatarEnergy signs 15-year urea deal with Koch - BC InsightQAFCO, a QatarEnergy affiliate and described as the world’s largest integrated single-site producer of urea and ammonia, is central to Qatar’s role as a top urea exporter, with long-standing supply relationships and expansion into supplying Koch Fertilizer …
Network: owners, partners, peers
Ownership & investors 3
| parent | Industries Qatar |
| subsidiary | Gulf Formaldehyde Company |
| subsidiary | Qatar Melamine Company |
Partners & deals 3
| counterparty | Industries Qatar (IQ) (parent company) …Shiekh Khalid Bin Abdulla Al-Thani was appointed as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of QAFCO on May 10, 2026.… |
| joint venture | Founded …| Focus | Founded in 1969 as a joint venture between the Government of Qatar and a number of foreign shareholders, QAFCO has evolved s… |
| joint venture | Qatar Fertiliser Company (QAFCO …Qatar Fertiliser Company (QAFCO) is a major fertilizer producer established in 1969 as a joint venture between the Government of Qatar and foreign shareholders.
- Business focus: Produces Ammo… |
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