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Petrochemicals is a major area of GAIL's business activity. GAIL has set up a world-scale Gas Cracker plant at Pata in Uttar Pradesh in Northern India at an investment of Rs. 25 billion having a design capacity to produce 300,000 TPA of ethylene (Expandable to 500,000 TPA). The Plant was commissioned in March 1999. Downstream units include an HDPE production unit of 100,000 TPA capacity and an LLDPE/ HDPE Swing plant of 160,000 TPA capacity.
GAIL's petrochemical complex,the first one outside Western India, is introducing MITSUI's technology for production of HDPE in India. Speciality grades from this technology are a replacement to a very large extent. In addition to this technology which is based on slurry process, GAIL's other downstream plant(swing plant of HDPE/LLDPE) is based on solution process using Sclairtech Technology of NOVA Chemicals, Canada. With the availability of both the processes, GAIL can produce a very wide grade range of HDPE. Besides, steady price and availability of input raw material (Natural Gas) and same tariff exemptions are the major advantages of GAIL in this highly competitive industry.
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