Reliance opens elastomers customer support centre at Vadodara

摘要

The synthetic rubber business group of Reliance Industries, Relflex Elastomers, has inaugurated a hi-tech Elastomers Customer Support Centre (ECSC) at its petrochemicals complex in Vadodara. "The ECSC would serve as a springboard for mutual collaborative efforts, value additions and joint product development between Relflex Elastomers and its customers," the company said in a statement. The facility would service tyre as well as the non-tyre industry. Reliance's elastomer business supplies polybutadiene rubber (PBR) to the tyre industry. Currently, Reliance is producing 80-ktpa of PBR in Vadodara. An additional 40-kta of PBR is under commissioning at Hazira in Gujarat, and commercial supplies are expected to start by the end of this month. Reliance is also coming up with a 150-ktpa emulsion styrene butadiene rubber (e-SBR) plant, which would be capable of producing both oil extended and non-oil extended grades. The plant is expected to start by end of May 2014, the statement added.