MOSCOW (MRC) -- The leading private conglomerate Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has announced that it will be investing USD5 bln for its refining and petrochemicals business by March, 2016, reported Plastemart.
The decision came after the strong refining margins led to higher profits for the company in Q1. The Mukesh Ambani-led company operates the largest refinery complex of the world. The company witnessed a 12% increase in its net profit of April-June 2015 quarter. It recorded profits of Rs. 63.18 bln.
Analysts had predicted the profit to be Rs. 63.08 bln but the company exceeded expectations. Refining margins are the highest in six years. The company is making heavy investments to increase the capacity.
We remind that, as MRC informed earlier, in April 2015, RIL successfully put into operation two plants in Dahej, Gujarat, India. The first was a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) resin plant, which consists of two lines with a combined manufacturing capacity of 650 KTA. The plant has been built with Invista technology for continuous polymerization and Buhler AG technology for solid state polymerization. This is one of the largest bottle-grade PET resin capacity at a single location globally, and consolidates Reliance’s position as a leading PET resin producer with a global capacity of 1.15 MMTPA, the company said. PET resin from the new capacity would find application in packaging for water, carbonated soft drinks, pharmaceuticals and other food and beverages.
The second facility is a new purified terephthalic acid (PTA) plant that provides a capacity of 1,150 KTA. With the commissioning of this plant, also built with Invista technology, Reliance’s total PTA capacity will increase to 3.2 MMTPA, and its global capacity share will rise to 4%.
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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