MOSCOW (MRC) -- Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) is expected to shut its cracker, PE and PP plants located at Hazira, as per Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source informed that the cracker and both PE and PP plants are likely to be shut on March 23, 2017 for a maintenance turnaround. Both the plants are expected to remain off-stream for around 25 days.
Located at Hazira near Surat in Gujarat, the cracker has a production capacity of 1.1 mmt/year and the downstream PP plant has a production capacity of 600,000 mt/year. The PE plant has a capacity of 450,000 mt/year.
As MRC informed before, in February 2016, RIL was awarded a contract worth Rs. 100 crore to Petron Engineering Construction Ltd for its linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE) plant in Gujarat. The LLDPE plant is part of RIL's J-3 project in Jamnagar in the western Indian state of Gujarat. The J-3 project boasts of a petroleum refinery and allied petrochemical plants for the production of plastics and fibre intermediates.
Reliance Industries is one of the world's largest producers of polymers. Thus, the company produces among others polypropylene, polyethylene and polyvinyl chloride.
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