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New chemical projects. (Pakistan)

By Haidari, Iqbal
Publication: Economic Review
Date: Tuesday, September 1 1998

Several new chemical projects are in the implementation stage. Engro Chemical is setting a PVC manufacturing facility with an initial capacity of 100,000 tonnes per annum coming on stream in December 1999 at Port Qasim Karachi at an estimated cost of Rs.4 billion. Following are the new projects.

ICI PTA Plant

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, inaugurated ICI Pakistan's Pure Terephthalic Acid (PTA) Plant at Port Qasim on 2 May 1998. The PTA Plant represents the largest investment in a single manufacturing facility by the ICI Group anywhere in the world and the completio

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