Governor Babatunde Fashola to Commission Candel’s Facility in Lekki

The Candel Company Limited, Nigeria’s leading agricultural inputs development and distribution company, has announced that its integrated manufacturing facility for crop protection chemicals and foliar fertilizers will be commissioned on Tuesday, 26th May, 2015 by Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State. The multi-billion naira project, which is currently in its first phase, when completed, will deliver a facility with capacity for 80 million litres of formulated products per annum. The facility has five process plants for Soluble Liquids (SL), Emulsifiable Concentrates (EC) and Suspension Concentrates (SC) of products from diverse chemical families. It has sufficient capacity to supply Candel’s own distribution network in Nigeria and Ghana, with enough spare capacity for third parties in Nigeria and overseas. The target of the international market influenced its location at the Lekki Free Zone.     Source: ThisDay Newspaper