Chemplast Sanmar Limited purchased a mothballed oxychlorination plant from National Organic Chemicals India Ltd. (NOCIL), Mumbai in November 1999. The equipment bought from NOCIL was refurbished and many new items including pressure vessels, heat exchangers, reactors, compressors, pumps, piping, electric and instrumentation were added and the new facility was erected at the PVC plant site, Mettur, and successfully commissioned.
In order to make optimum utilisation of the facility, a sophisticated ethylene purification unit, additional utilities like a nitrogen plant, refrigeration plant, cooling tower, motor control centre etc., have also been installed. The entire operation including the dismantling of the plant at NOCIL and re-erecting it at Mettur was done in the record time of twelve months. N Sankar, Chairman of the Sanmar group, accompanied by M N Radhakrishnan, Managing Director, Sanmar Engineering Corporation, P S Jayaraman, Managing Director, Chemplast Sanmar Limited and S R Seshadri visited the new facility at Mettur on November 22, 2000. The new facility will substantially reduce dependence on chlorine sourcing.
Besides, it will also alleviate the problems of handling large volumes of hydrochloric acid. Apart from this facility, the company is also executing projects for ethylene augmentation and paste capacity expansion, which are expected to be completed very soon.
The newly commissioned oxychlorination facility of Chemplast Sanmar Limited at Mettur.
N Sankar, Chairman, Sanmar group, with other senior officials at the plant.