VOL. XXXIII

NO. 24

19-MARCH-1990

Egypt

Re-Bids Invited for TPA Plant

Egypt has invited re-bids for the construction of a $150mnpurified terephthalic acid (PTA) plant at the petrochemical complex at al-'Amiriya,west of Alexandria. The bids for the 60,000-ton/year plant were originallyinvited in 1988 (MEES, 24 October 1988), but the specifications have now beenchanged to raise the plant's capacity to 80,000 tons/year. The project includesthe construction of a 40,000-50,000-ton/year paraxylene...