VOL. XLIII

No. 45

6-November-2000

IRAN

NPC Awards Second Assaluyeh PTA Plant Contract To Japanese/Iranian Consortium

Irans National Petrochemical Company (NPC) has awarded a 22bn contract to a Japanese/Iranian consortium to build a second purified terephthalic acid (PTA) plant at Bandar Imam Khomeini on the Gulf coast. The plant will produce up to 350,000 tons/year of PTA using paraxylene and acetic acid feedstocks supplied by the Aromatics 3 and Methanol 3 plants under construction in the...