Karoon Petchem Plant Ships 5 Aniline Cargoes to Foreign Markets in H1

Karoon Petchem Plant Ships 5 Aniline Cargoes to Foreign Markets in H1
(Friday, October 20, 2017) 10:16

TEHRAN (NIPNA) -- The managing director of Karoon Petrochemical Plant said his company has exported 5 aniline consignments over the course of the first half of the current calendar year which began on March 21.

Speaking to NIPNA, Alireza Sedighizadeh said India is the company’s biggest buyer, adding the plant has the capacity of providing 30,000 tons of the item annually.

Aniline is also used as feedstock for methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) production unit of the facility.

The plant supplied 70,000 tons of MDI annually.

It invested nearly half a billion Euros for constructing its MDI and toluene diisocyanate (TDI) units.  

Karoon Petrochemical Plant is the first and only supplier of isocyanates in the Middle East.

Launched in 2008, the plant can supply 40,000 tons/year of TDI under Switzerland’s Chemature license as well.

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