By Mohi Narayan
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd (HPL) will begin a planned maintenance turnaround at its petrochemical complex in eastern India on April 16, a company spokesperson said on Tuesday.
The complex will be shut for a period of 45 days and the company plans to bring it back online on May 30, another company official said.
HPL has a 700,000 metric tons-per-year (tpy) ethylene plant, 491,000 tpy of chemical processing capacity and about 1 million tpy polymer processing capacity at its manufacturing facility in Haldia in the eastern state of West Bengal.
The company is majority-owned by a U.S.-based private equity firm The Chatterjee Group.
(Reporting by Mohi Narayan; Editing by Mrigank Dhaniwala)
