Saudi Arabia Fertilizers Company (Safco) began commercial operations on Tuesday at its Safco 5 urea plant, the firm said in a bourse filing.

The plant was originally scheduled to start up in the third quarter of 2014. It has an annual production capacity of 1.1 million tonnes of urea.

Safco, a unit of Saudi Basic Industries Corp, said the financial impact of the scheme will be reflected in the second half of this year, according to the filing. -Reuters