Compounding Unit of Marun Petchem Plant Near to be Completed: The first phase of the compounding unit of Maroon Petrochemical Plant has so far made over 80% progress and is expected to come on-stream before the end of the current Iranian calendar year which began on March 20, an official with the facility said.
Speaking to Shana, Mohsen Kashani, director of planning and production control of Marun Petrochemical Plant, said the unit will come online by the end of the current calendar year with a production capacity of 60,000 tons annually.
The unit is being constructed with the aim of completing the value chain in the downstream sector of the industry in the regions and prevent the sale of raw materials, he said.
The unit’s first phase is being developed with €11m and IRR12b investments.
Maroon Petrochemical Facility, located in Mahshahr PETZONE, southwestern Iran, extracts ethane from natural gas and offers it to petrochemical plants as feedstock.
About Marun Petrochemical Plant
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 situated in two regions with total area of 102.5 hectares
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
