RPL to set up 900 KTA polyprepylene facility

New Delhi, May 16 (UNI) Dow Global Technologies Inc (DGTI), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dow Chemical Company, today said that Reliance Petroleum Ltd (RPL) has selected the UNIPOL PP Process for setting up a new world-scale polypropylene (PP) production facility.

The facility will be built in a special economic zone (SEZ) adjacent to the company's Jamnagar complex. The 900 KTA plant, scheduled to start in 2008-end, will have two reactor lines, each with a capacity of 450 KTA.

Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) currently operates four UNIPOL PP Process lines at its Jamnagar complex and two UNIPOL PP Process lines at its Hazira complex.

''We are eager to play an ongoing role in the growth of the Reliance Group's polymer business and we are pleased that they have chosen to continue a successful relationship with the UNIPOL PP Process,'' said Dr Molly Peifang Zhang, Vice President of DGTI.

She further added, ''The UNIPOL PP Process is the most competitive and productive polypropylene technology available today. Reliance's new lines will benefit from our commitment to deliver groundbreaking single-line capacities while driving the capital cost down.'' RIL is the largest producer of polypropylene in Asia. The new facility will produce a full range of homopolymers to supply the growing markets in Asia.

Licensees of the UNIPOL PP Process operate more than 35 production lines around the world, accounting for more than 5.5 million metric tonnes of global polypropylene production.

The Dow Chemical Company is a global intellectual property holding company for Dow.

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