Haldia Petrochemical Ltd. (HPL) on Friday said that it had successfully completed its Rs 1,230 crore Supermax expansion project, which is likely to raise the plant's capacity from 5.2 lakh tonnes per annum (tpa) to about 6.7 tpa.
HPL had initiated a closure almost three months back to execute the project, which was already running behind by over two years resulting in an increase in the project rise from the earlier estimate of Rs 675 crore to Rs 1,230 crore.
“Haldia Petrochemicals has successfully completed the Supermax revamp project and pure product from Naphtha Cracker Unit (NCU) has been obtained on February 10. Pure butadiene and benzene are also being produced. Freshly produced polymer products are undergoing usual quality assurance procedures before dispatch to market,” the company said in a statement.
The company added that controlling the highly sophisticated, state-or-the-art new and modified systems has been successfully overcome, however, further stabilisation at higher throughputs will continue gradually.
In November last year, the expansion process had been buffeted after a CITU-backed union called an indefinite strike over wage revisions of contractual workers. The issue, however, had been settled in a few days.