It is a prominent company of the Iraqi Ministry of Industry & Minerals. The company is largely involved in the production and marketing of sulphur , Frash sulphur produced by the underground melting method. The Frash developed process is different from the well-known Frash process and that the underground water serves as the transport media for the transportation of heat to melt the sulphur underground at 120-200 m. deep injected into an open structure and not closed system as it is the case to the normal Frash process. The company was established in April 1969 and production of sulphur commenced on the 28th of December 1971.