I G Petrochemicals Limited announced that its board of directors at their meeting held on November 1, 2021 have approved the expansion of Phthalic Anhydride capacity.
The company will build the new plant with a capacity of 53,000 MTPA at its existing plant location, Taloja (brownfield expansion) at an outlay of approx. Rs 3.45 billion.
The demand for Phthalic Anhydride in domestic market is expected to increase due to Govt. focus on Infrastructure spending and demand growth in downstream products like Paints, Plasticizers, Polyvinyl chloride, Unsaturated polyester resins (UPR) etc., led by good GDP growth in India.
The funding will be done through ECB / Term Loans and Internal Accruals.