RIL Jamnagar plant, the second largest producer of Para-xylene (PX) globally

Mumbai: Reliance today announced the ‘successful and flawless’ commissioning of the last crystallization train (Train 3) of the Para-xylene (PX) complex at Jamnagar in Gujarat.

RIL in its statement said: This plant is built with ‘state-of-the-art’ crystallization technology from BP which is highly energy efficient.

With the commissioning of Jamnagar plant, RIL’s PX capacity has more than doubled making it world’s second largest producer of PX with about 11% of global production.

Pursuant to installation and mechanical completion of the entire PX complex in the previous quarter, Reliance commissioned second phase of PX comprising of second crystallization train (Train 2), Trans-alkylation and Aromatic Extraction units at Jamnagar in April 2017. Train 3, which was at an advanced stage of commissioning has now been successfully started.