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COMPANY NEWS

CB&I awarded contract for a Gravita India starts commercial

grassroots ethylene complex in production at 6,000 mtpa at
South Uzbekistan for the production of olefins, which can then be used for
Jaipur recycling unit
the production of high-value polymer products.
B&I has been awarded a technology contract by Shurtan ravita India started commercial production of

CGas Chemical Complex LLC (SGCC) for a grassroots Gwashed polypropylene by installing new automated
eco-friendly washing line having annual capacity of 6,000
mtpa at its existing recycling unit situated in Jaipur. An
investment of approximately Rs 1.5 crore has been made
for procuring and commissioning of this plant which is
invested from internal accruals.
The company said ini ts filing that it has started
commercial production of washed polypropylene by
installing new automated eco-friendly washing line having
annual capacity of 6,000 MTPA at its existing recycling
unit situated in Jaipur. Gravita India shares gained 4
percent intraday Tuesday after the company started
commercial production of polypropylene. It has made
investment of approximately Rs 1.5 crore for procuring
and commissioning of this plant which is invested from
internal accurals.

ethylene complex to be built in southern Uzbekistan. The Navin Prakash Sharma, President & CEO of Gravita India
scope of work includes the license and basic engineering
of an ethylene unit, which will use four proprietary SRT
heaters, a Hexene-1 unit and a polypropylene unit. The
Hexene-1 unit will use CB&I's Comonomer Production
Technology for the production of Hexene-1 from low-cost
C4s, and the polypropylene unit will use CB&I's Novolen®
gas-phase polypropylene technology for the production of
full range polypropylene products.

"CB&I looks forward to providing multiple technologies to
SGCC's complex," said Daniel M. McCarthy, CB&I's Executive
Vice President of Technology.

"This is the second ethylene unit supplied to the
complex, which reinforces our presence in central Asia said that this plant will help in manufacturing more value
and illustrates how our breadth of technologies can be
packaged to deliver a complete solution to our customers added products. The automated eco-friendly washing
through a single point of contact." Uzbekistan made the line plant will strengthen plastic recycling segment of
strategic decision to use a synthetic naphtha product from the company that expects an increase of Rs 3 crore in
its Gas-to-Liquids plant located in the Kashkadarya region bottomline.

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