Fatima Fertilizer Company

Fatima Fertilizer Company Limited is a fertiliser manufacturer headquartered in Lahore, Pakistan. It was established in 2003 as a joint venture between the Fatima Group and the Arif Habib Corporation.
The company manufactures, sells, imports, and exports fertilisers and chemicals. Its production includes two intermediary products, ammonia and nitric acid, and three final products: urea, calcium ammonium nitrate, and nitro phosphate. Pakistan's fertilizer sector is oligopolistic, with nine companies in operation. Fatima Fertilizer is the third-largest player with a market share of about 6.1%.
A major factor in its profitability is an exclusive gas supply contract from the Mari Gas Field, operated by Mari Petroleum.

Operations

Fatima Fertilizer runs three plants in Sadiqabad, Multan, and Sheikhupura; the latter was acquired in 2015 from Dawood Hercules Corporation. It also holds an equity stake in Midwest Fertilizer Company in Indiana, United States, through a Singapore-based subsidiary.

Expansion

The company plans to build a new urea plant at Port Qasim with an investment exceeding US$500 million, which will add one million tons to its annual capacity. Fatima Group has also partnered with Algeria's Sonarem to develop phosphate reserves at Bir el Ater, and jointly with Lucky Cement has acquired a 66.66% stake in National Resources Limited, a Balochistan-based mineral exploration company.