Morocco’s OCP Group Marks 100 Years of Phosphate Industry Leadership

The first shovel for the construction of the OCP was given in March 1921, in the vicinity of the future city of Khouribga. In "1930 and during the Second World War, the group was a public company, and was the first mainstay of the country". From a superphosphate plant commissioned in the port of Casablanca, the OCP has come a long way.

The group has set up "the exploitation of the Gantour deposits, then in 1952, the exploitation of the first open-pit mine". This is how, little by little, ambitious and determined, the OCP has written new pages of its history with the objectives of "entering the era of phosphate valorization and diversifying its offer". In the 1960s, there was "the creation in Safi of Maroc-Chimie, the first fertilizer manufacturing plant in Morocco". Less than ten years later, "the Jorf Lasfar industrial processing complex was inaugurated in 1986".

From there, everything went very quickly. In the 1990s, the OCP signed "new partnerships with leading foreign economic players and asserted its international influence". In 2014, it launched "the world’s longest phosphate transport pipeline connecting Khouribga to Jorf Lasfar, then in another register, by the opening in 2017 of the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University". Over all these years, the group has managed to establish itself through its determination to be indispensable in Morocco, Africa and the world.