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Gujarat Chemical Projects

Niranjan Petro Chem to expand its Solvent Distillation plant at Ankleshwar

Details: Category: Gujarat Chemical Projects

Niranjan Petro Chem to expand its Solvent Distillation plant at Ankleshwar in Bharuch district of Gujarat with an investment of Rs. 5.5 million.

The details of the existing and proposed products are as given below:

Sr. No.	Name of Product	Existing (MTM)	Proposed (MTM)
01.	Solvent Distillation ( Metanol & Acetic Acid)	75.00	Nil
02.	IPA.HCI	Nil	10.00
03.	Methyl Alcohol .HCL	Nil	10.00
04	Sodium 2 Ethyl Hexonate	Nil	09.60
05	1-2-4 Triazole	Nil	10.40
06	Crude Metformin Hydrochloride	Nil	14.70
07	Crude Phenyl Proponol Amino Hydrochloride	Nil	01.00
	TOTAL	75.00	55.70
	Byproduct	Quantity (MTM)
01	Sulfuric Acid (50%)	19.80
02	Liquor Ammonia (15-17%)	15.40
03	Distilled water	13.35

Shyamal Organics to set up organic intermediates unit at Vapi in Valsad

Details: Category: Gujarat Chemical Projects

Shyamal Organics to set up organic intermediates unit at Vapi in Valsad district in Gujarat with an investment of Rs. 70.5 million. The project involves expanding organic Intermediates manufacturing unit of capacity from 500 MTPM to 2125 MTPM besides byproducts.

Details of products and their production capacities are given below:

Sr. No.	Products	Existing NOC	Proposed	Total after Expansion
1	1,2,4 Triazole	350	0	350
2	Sodium Salt of 1,2,4 Triazole	150	0	150
3	Sodium Methoxide (30%) Solution OR Sodium Methoxide (Powder)	0	300 Or 90	300 Or 90
4	Para/ortho nitro anisole	0	125	125
5	Para/ortho anisidine or Meta Chloro Aniline by Sodium Hydrosulfide (NaSH) or Caustic + Sulfur	0	150	150
6	Aniline or Ortho/meta/para chloro aniline or 2,3/2,5/3,4/2,4/2,6/3,5 dichloro aniline or Ortho/meta/para toludene or 2,4,5 Trichloro aniline or Ortho/para phenoxy aniline or Ortho/para amino phenol or Para/ortho anisidine by Hydrogen	0	400	400
7	Ortho/para phenoxy nitro benzene	0	100	100
8	Nitro Benzene or 2,3/3,4 Dichloro nitro benzene or 2:5 Dichloro nitro benzene or 2,4/2,6 dichloro nitro beznene or 2,4,5/2,3,6 Trichloro nitro benzene	0	300	300
9	3,5 Dichloro aniline	0	200	200
10	4 Amino 1,2,4 Triazole	0	50	50
11	Total	=SUM(ABOVE) 500	1625	2125

List of by-products

Sr. No.	By products	Quantity MT/Month
1	Liquor Ammonia (22- 24% from 1,2,4 Triazole & 3:5 DCA)	550.722
2	HBr (48%) + NH₄Br (33.59%) or HCl 30% + Br₂ soln from 3:5 DCA	220.76 + 381.53 or 160.46 + 209.32
3	Sodium Thiosulphate soln. (35-45%) from NaSH reduction	674.653
4	Aluminum Chloride soln (12.31%) from 3:5 DCA	2280.76
5	Spent Sulphuric Acid (75%) from nitration product	262.75
6	Methanol from sodium salt of Triazole	261.48

Dhanveen Pigments to expand dye intermediates unit at Panoli in Bharuch

Details: Category: Gujarat Chemical Projects

Dhanveen Pigments to expand dye intermediates unit at Panoli in Bharuch district of Gujarat with an investment of Rs. 53.9 million. The project involves expanding dye intermediates manufacturing unit from 40 MTPM to 125 MTPM for production of Phthalocyanine Green-7 . Besides there will be increase in the byproducts production from 460MTPM to 1604 MTPM of AlCl3 Solution, 176MTPM to 613 MTPM of NaOCl Solution and from 94MTPM to 330MTPM of HCl Solution.

Makwell Organics to expand its Epoxidized Soyabean oil (Epoxy Plasticizer) manufacturing unit

Details: Category: Gujarat Chemical Projects

Makwell Organics to expand its Epoxidized Soyabean oil (Epoxy Plasticizer) manufacturing unit at Vapi in Valsad district of Gujarat. The total project cost is estimated at Rs. 23.7 million. The project involves expanding capacity from 54 TPM to 1000 TPM.