Marun Plant to Launch 60k-Ton Compounding Project in 2017: Managing Director of “Marun Petrochemical Plant” Rahim Mousavi said the plant will launch a 60,000-ton compounding unit in 2017.
Speaking to NIPNA, Mousavi said installation of equipment for completion of the project is going on as planned and the project will partially come on-stream by winter.
He said the plant will be fully operational next year, adding the compounding unit of Maroun Petrochemical Plant is being completed with the aim of completing the value chain of downstream petrochemical production.
Construction of the plant began in 1998 and was officially launched in 2006.
The plant recycles ethane in natural gas for production of various chemicals and polymer products.
Regarded as one of Iran’s biggest petrochemical facilities, the plant can process 110,000 tons of ethylene, 200,000 tons of propylene, 300,000 tons of dense polyethylene, 300,000 tons of polypropylene and over 443,000 tons of various grades of glycol.
Source: nipna.ir
About Marun PC:
Marun Petrochemical Complex
MPC was established in 21 Jan 1995 for implementation of 7th olefin. Implementation of this Project with annual production capacity of 11 million tons poly ethylene as one of greatest olefins Plant in world lead to for the first time in Iran C2+ (ethane) has been extracted from natural gas and transform to olefin compounds, polymeric and chemical products.
Marun Petrochemical Complex is located at two regions in the southern province of Khoozestan in Iran with a total area of 102.5 acres. This PC Complex is one of the famous PC complexes in Iran.
1- Ahwaz Curait Camp Region
Ethane recovery unit located in 15th km of Ahwaz Mahshahr road olefin Plant feed Product here and transfer to Petrochemical Special economic zone via 95 km pipeline.
2- Petrochemical Special Economic Zone Olefin Plant With other unites such as heavy poly ethylene, poly propylene, ethylene oxide, ethylene glycol in site 2 of Imam Khomeini port Petrochemical special economic zone with total area of 93 Hectors
