Mumbai, June 9 (IANS): Reliance Industries Limited on Friday announced successful commissioning of the last crystallisation train (Train 3) of its para-xylene (PX) complex at Jamnagar.
"This plant is built with state-of-the-art crystallisation technology from BP which is highly energy-efficient. With the commissioning of this plant, RIL's PX capacity has more than doubled making it the world's second largest producer of PX with about 11 per cent of global production," the company said in a statement here.
Pursuant to installation and mechanical completion of the entire PX complex in the previous quarter, Reliance commissioned the second phase of PX comprising of second crystallisation train (Train 2), trans-alkylation and aromatic extraction units at Jamnagar in April earlier this year, said the statement.
"Train 3, which was at an advanced stage of commissioning, has now been successfully started," it added.