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26-DEC-94/2 JAN 95

Iran

Rafsanjani Inaugurates Kharg Methanol Plant

Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani inaugurated the constructionof a 660,000 tons/year methanol plant located at the Kharg Island petrochemicalcomplex on 16 December. The plant, part of Iran's second five-year plan whichofficially begins in March 1995 will also produce 50,000 t/y of acetic acidusing the offgases from the other petrochemical facilities (MEES, 3 October).The plant will cost...