NPC has brought onstream its 20,000 tonne/year melamine crystal plant at the Khorasan Petrochemical Complex (KHPC) in Bojnoord, northeast of Iran. The plant also produces 70,000 tonne/year of ammonium carbamate as by-product.
The melamine crystal facility is built in an area of 1.5 hectares. The contract for the plant was signed on 30 December 1999 and came into force on 15 May 2001.
It was precommissioned in late December 2003 and commissioned in early February 2004.



KHPC provides the project with the 12,240 tonne/year of ammonia and 70,000 tonne/year urea feedstock it requires. Utilities and offsite services are also provided by the same complex. They include 12,000,000 KWH/year of electricity, 282,000 tonne/year of steam, 42,000 G.Cal/year of natural gas and 24,000,000 CM/year of cooling water.



The Italian contractor Eurotecnica S.P.A. and Nargan, a local firm, are the engineering and procurement contractors for the project with the plant being based on Eurotecnica technology.
Half of the output from the project has been earmarked for export while the balance will be consumed by local downstream industries.
NPC has another melamine crystal plant in Orumiyeh with a capacity of 3,000 tonne/year.