Petrochemical Industries Company (PIC), established by an Amiri Decree issued on July 23, 1963, to develop the ammonia and nitrogen fertilisers industry in Kuwait.

Petrochemical derivatives constitute one of the main building blocks of the modern industrial economy. The market’s exponential growth in recent years has led PIC to embark upon several ambitious projects for state-of-the-art petrochemical production in Kuwait.

Over the years, PIC’s plants have undergone expansion and new plants have been installed for the production of liquid ammonia with total capacity of 858,000 metric tonnes/year and three urea plants with total capacity of 792,000 metric tonnes/year. In 1997, the Company started a polypropylene plant with an annual capacity of 100,000 metric tonnes.

Polypropylene is a highly versatile material with a vast range of industrial uses -- from plastic rope and string to transparent wrapping material, or moulded plastics used by the automobile industry in the manufacture of bumpers, dashboards and other components.

In July 1995, PIC, Dow and Boubyan Petrochemical Company formed a joint venture called EQUATE Petrochemical Company to build a new US $ 2 billion state-of-art petrochemical complex at Shuaiba Industrial Area which was commissioned in late 1997.

For more information, visit www.pic.com.kw