This project is located at Ras Al-Khair Industrial City in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. Client has signed a SR900 million ($240 million) loan agreement with the Saudi Industrial Development Fund (SIDF) to establish the project. It will produce the inorganic products soda ash and calcium chloride. InoChem will build, own and operate an industrial complex, which will produce two grades of soda ash — light and dense — and calcium chloride in two grades (77 and 94 percent). Total production capacity in the first phase, which is due to start in 2020, is expected to be 600,000 tons per annum, making it the first of its kind in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states, and the largest in the Middle East and North Africa. the project will supply the two products to vital industries and operations in the Kingdom, such as oil and gas operations, glass manufacturing and synthetic detergents manufacturing.