MOSCOW (MRC) -- Reliance Industries, the second largest publicly traded company in India, is in plans to restart its domestic polypropylene (PP) plant following maintenance turnaround, reported Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in India informed that the plant is planned to be restarted towards end-March 2015. It was shut on February 28, 2015.
Located in Jamnagar in the Western Indian state of Gujarat, the plant has a production capacity of 1 million mt/year.
As MRC informed previously, Reliance Industries is implementing a new project to source 1.5 million tpy of ethane feedstock from the US to feed its crackers in India.
Besides, RIL has announced that it would invest over Rs 100,000 crore in expansion of its petrochemical capacities and adding value to its refining business.
Reliance Industries is one of the world's largest producers of polymers. The company's polymer production in 2010-11 (polypropylene, polyethylene and polyvinyl chloride) made 4,094 kilo tonnes.
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