Thailand's IRPC Pcl plans expansion of propylene capacity by 58% by 2014

02-Dec-10

Thailand's IRPC Pcl (IRPC) plans to expand propylene capacity by 58% by 2014, as per Reuters. IRPC, 37% owned by Thailand's top energy firm PTT Pcl plans to seek approval this month to go ahead with plans to expand annual capacity of propylene by 160,000 tons. Construction of a new propylene plant is expected to be completed by 2014 in addition to a previously announced "de-bottlenecking" expansion that would raise its propylene capacity by 100,000 tpa in 2012. IRPC's current capacity of 450,000 tpa of propylene will rise to 710,000 tons by 2014.