GAIL achieves mechanical completion of 100,000 TPA new HDPE plant at PATA
New Delhi, September 5, 2007: GAIL (India) Limited has achieved mechanical completion of its new HDPE (High Density Polyethylene) Plant at the Petrochemical Complex at PATA. GAIL Chairman & Managing Director, Dr. U. D. Choubey formally marked the completion by opening the Plant on Tuesday at Pata.
The capacity of the new HDPE plant is 100,000 TPA and is based on technology from Mitsui, Japan. With the completion of the new HDPE plant, the polymer capacity of the Pata Petrochemical plant has increased to 410,000 TPA from 310,000 TPA.
The project was completed within the estimated project cost of Rs. 647.38 Crore.
Commissioning process will now commence and the plant is expected to be commissioned shortly. GAIL’s polymer products include wide range of HDPE grades based on technology from Mitsui, Japan, and wide range of HDPE and LLDPE grades based on technology from NOVA chemicals, Canada.
GAIL made an entry into the petrochemicals market in the year 1999. Since then, polymer sales have increased nearly three-fold in volume, from 110,000 tonnes in the Financial Year 1999-2000 to 347, 000 tonnes in the Financial Year 2006-2007, and over five fold in value, from Rs 479 crore in the Financial Year 1999-2000 to Rs. 2570 crore in the Financial Year 2006-2007. Out of a total Gross Margin of Rs. 2387 crore, polymers have contributed nearly 40 per cent in 2006-07.
Today, more than one-fifth of the polymers (HDPE, LLDPE) consumed in India are produced and marketed by GAIL. GAIL's polymer products are environment-friendly and fully recyclable. GAIL’s petrochemical complex at Pata is North India's only gas based integrated petrochemical complex and is a ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 certified facility.
GAIL is currently also setting up a 280,000 TPA polymer capacity at Dibrugarh in Assam at an investment of Rs. 5460.61 crore through a Joint Venture Company Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Limited. GAIL is also looking to expand its presence through Joint Ventures – with atleast one more plant in India and one overseas.