MOSCOW (MRC) -- Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) has announced the "successful and flawless" commissioning of the last crystallization train (Train 3) at its paraxylene facility in Jamnagar, India, as per Apic-online.
The plant, built with BP's state-of-the-art crystalliza-tion technology, more than doubles RIL's paraxylene capacity to 4.2-million-t/y, making RIL the "world's second largest" producer of paraxylene with about 11% of global production.
RIL commissioned the second phase of the complex this past April, which comprised a second crystallization train, trans-alkylation and aromatic extraction units.
As MRC wrote previously, RIL shut its cracker, polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) plants located at Hazira for a maintenance turnaround on March 23, 2017 . Both the plants remained 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.
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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