August 31, 2007 - "Reliance to produce Cyclohexane with Axens Technology"
Reliance Industries Limited has awarded Axens a basic engineering contract and license for the production of 40 000 tons per annum (tpa) of high purity cyclohexane. The unit will hydrogenate benzene using Axens’ proprietary two-step process technology which employs low-temperature, liquid-phase homogeneous catalysis followed by gas-phase heterogeneous catalysts. The process design affords complete conversion, product purity in excess of 99.9% and very low utilities consumption.
The unit, to be located in the Hazira Petrochemical Complex in Gujarat Province, India is on a fast-track schedule with expected commissioning in 2008.
Axens has licensed 36 cyclohexane units for a cumulated capacity of over 4.2 million tpa.
Reliance Industries Limited Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), a Reliance Group Company founded by Dhirubhai H. Ambani, is India's largest private sector enterprise, with businesses in the energy and materials value chain. The Group's annual revenues are in excess of USD 22 billion. RIL is a Fortune Global 500 company. Reliance enjoys global leadership in its businesses, being the largest polyester yarn and fiber producer in the world and among the top five to ten producers in the world in major petrochemical products. Major Group Companies are Reliance Industries Limited (including main subsidiaries Reliance Petroleum Limited and Reliance Retail Limited), Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Limited and Reliance Industrial Infrastructure Limited.
