Midwest Fertilizer Co. recently detailed its plans to build a new $2.8 billion manufacturing plant in southwest Indiana.
The company expects that the 220-acre facility will produce about 2 million tons of ammonia, urea, urea ammonium nitrate and diesel exhaust fluid per year. The project will create about 185 new jobs by 2021.
Originally the company had planned to open the plant in 2012, but then it began to run into trouble. In 2013, then-Governor Mike Pence pulled state support for the project, citing concerns over the company’s lead investor: Fatima Group, which is based in Pakistan. After additional negotiations, the state’s economic development group eventually offered the company $3.3 million in conditional tax credits and $300,000 in conditional incentives.
The company now hopes to begin operations in 2022.