(plastemart) -- Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Limited (IPCL) has expanded cracker capacity at Gandhar from 300,000 tonnes to 365,000 tonnes, which can be debottlenecked upto 400,000 tonnes.
Much of the capacity expansion will be based on use on imported propane, as per Economic Times. Gandhar gas cracker capacity expansion was made possible mainly due to expansion in gas processing capacity of its ethane and propane recovery unit (EPRU). However, this gas supply is not enough for the cracker and so IPCL has been importing propane for some time as additional feedstock for the cracker.
Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Limited (IPCL) is a petrochemicals company in India. It was established on March 22, 1969, with a view to promote and encourage the use of plastics in India. Its business consists of polymers (LDPE, LLDPE, copolymer sheets, PP, etc.), synthetic fibre, fibre intermediaries, solvents, surfactants, industrial chemicals, catalysts, adsorbents, and polyesters. The Company operates three petrochemical complexes, a naphtha based complex at Vadodara
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