Reliance has commissioned a 1.15 mln tpa purified terephthalic acid (PTA) plant and a 650,000 tpa PET (Polyethylene Terephthalate) plant at its petrochemical manufacturing site near Bharuch, Gujarat state. The site also includes an ethane-propane recovery unit, gas cracker, caustic chlorine plant, and four downstream plants for the production of polymers and fiber intermediates.
Equipped with process technology from INVISTA Performance Technologies, the plant will use paraxylene feedstock from RIL’s nearby 1.24 mln bpd Jamnagar refinery. This will boost the company’s total PTA capacity to 3.2 million tpa, and will help bridge the current 1.5 mln tpa deficit in India’s PTA market.
13-Apr-15 
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