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News Release from: Dow Technology Licensing
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 18 May 2007
900 KTA Unipol PP process plant for
Reliance
Reliance Petroleum has selected the Unipol PP process from Dow Global Technologies for a new world-scale polypropylene (PP) production facility at Jamnagar in India
Dow Global Technologies (DGTI), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Dow Chemical Company, has announced that Reliance Petroleum, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Reliance Industries, has selected the Unipol PP Process for a new world-scale polypropylene (PP) production facility The facility will be built in a special economic zone adjacent to their Jamnagar complex
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 6 Sep 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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The plant will have two reactor lines, each with a capacity of 450 KTA; the total capacity of the facility will be 900 KTA of polypropylene, with start-up scheduled for December 2008.
Reliance Industries currently operates four Unipol PP process lines at its Jamnagar complex and two Unipol PP Process lines at its Hazira complex, and is the largest producer of polypropylene in Asia.
The new facility will produce a full range of homopolymers to supply the growing markets in Asia.
"We are eager to play an on-going role in the growth of the Reliance Group polymer business and we are pleased that they have chosen to continue a successful relationship with the Unipol PP process," commented Dr Molly Peifang Zhang, vice president of DGTI: "The Unipol PP process is the most competitive and productive polypropylene technology available today.
These new Reliance lines will benefit from our commitment to deliver groundbreaking single-line capacities while driving the capital cost down".
Licensees of the Unipol PP process operate more than 35 production lines around the world, accounting for more than 5.5 million metric tons of global polypropylene production.
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