Jordan has approved projects to build a semi-conductor plant for solar power energy and another factory for the production of ceramics, a newspaper said on Thursday.

The Arabic language daily Al-Ghad quoted Chairman of Amman Chamber of Industry Fatehi Al-Gaghbeer as saying a Canadian firm has also committed for investing in an aluminium rolls plant in the Arab country.

Jordan’s Philadelphia Solar Company will build the $100 million semi-conductor plant in Mushatta Industrial zone in the capital Amman, Gaghbeer said.

A Chinese firm has also decided to invest around $65 million to set up a ceramic plant in Al-Karak city in West Jordan, he said without naming that firm.

Gaghbeer said the aluminium rolls plant would be built in the Southern port of Aqaba at a cost of $40 million, adding that it would produce 120,000 tonnes per year.

He said Jordan’s Orbit Aluminum Company would manage the project but he did not identify the Canadian investor.
 
(Writing by Nadim Kawach; Editing by Anoop Menon)

(anoop.menon@lseg.com)