Dow licenses technology for Reliance PP unit
16 May 2007 13:11 [Source: ICIS news]
MUMBAI (ICIS news)-- Dow Global Technologies has licensed its processes to Reliance Petroleum Ltd (RPL) for a new polypropylene (PP) facility at Jamnagar, India, the company said on Wednesday.
The world-scale plant will have two reactor lines, each with a capacity of 450,000 tonnes/year, said Dow Global Technologies, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dow Chemical.
The plant will be built in a special economic zone adjacent to RPL’s refinery project in the
The PP facility, which will produce a full range of homopolymers using Dow's UNIPOL technology, was scheduled for completion in December 2008, said Dow Global Technologies.
However, sources close to Reliance told ICIS news earlier on Wednesday that it was likely to be completed in April or May 2008.
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