Specialty Paste PVC resin

The Specialty Paste PVC resin operations of Chemplast began in May 1967 at Mettur, near Salem in Tamil Nadu, to manufacture a variety of high quality Specialty Paste PVC resin products having a wide range of end-use applications.

Chemplast Sanmar pioneered the manufacture of speciality Paste PVC in India. It is today the country’s largest manufacturer of Specialty Paste PVC resin.

Feedstock Management

With the intention of achieving self-sufficiency in feedstock, the company completed a strategic acquisition of a chlor-alkali plant at Karaikal in August 2003, and ramped up the plant capacity. This plant had a capacity of 33,000 TPA of caustic soda and 30,000 TPA of chlorine.

This has been increased to 52,000 TPA of caustic soda and 46,000 TPA of chlorine. A downstream EDC plant of 84,000 TPA capacity, which captively utilises the chlorine from the chlor-alkali plant at Karaikal has also been set up. This plant includes a Marine Terminal facility for the import of liquid ethylene. To derive further cost advantage, the company has installed gas-based power plants with a name-plate capacity of 12 MW at this location.