Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL) has flagged off the first dispatch of polypropylene. On the first day, around 500 tones of the product was sold worth Rs 4 crore through nine dealers.
At the function, Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Standing Committee Chairman Prahlad V Joshi said production of polypropylene in (MRPL) would help in saving foreign exchange. India imports 86% of its PP. MRPL, now the only producer of the product in South India and second in India after Bathinda of Punjab, can produce up to 15.3 lakh MT of polypropylene to meet the demand of South India.
26-Jun-15 
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