MOSCOW (MRC) -- Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd (HPL) has brought on-stream its downstream plants at Haldia in the eastern Indian state of west Bengal, according to Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in India informed that the company has resumed operations at the downstream polypropylene (PP) and polyethylene (PE) plants, following a turnaround. The plants were shut for maintenance on May 10, 2018. The upstream cracker at the complex was restarted last week.
Located at Haldia in the eastern Indian state of west Bengal, the complex has a 330,000 mt/year high density polyethylene (HDPE) plant, a 370,000 mt/year HDPE/linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE) swing plant and a 350,000 mt/year polypropylene plant.
As MRC informed before, in October 2016, HPL reported a massive fire at the petrochemical complex located in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal.
Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd is a modern naphtha based petrochemical complex at Haldia, West Bengal, India. Haldia has played the role of a catalyst in emergence of more than 500 downstream processing industries in West Bengal with a capacity to process more than 3,50,000 TPA of polymers, among which are PE and PP.
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