By Bizodisha Bureau, Bhubaneswar, August 3, 2020: The Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) will invest Rs 13,805 crore to set up a plant in Paradip to manufacture raw materials for the textile sector. The project is expected to be completed by 2024.

The paraxylene (PX) and purified terephthalic acid (PTA) plant will be integrated with the IOCL’s refinery facility in the port town of Jagatsinghpur district.

IOCL Chairman SM Vaidya said this plant along with the upcoming mono-ethylene glycol (MEG) facility of 357-kilo tonne per annum capacity in Paradip would be a ready source of feedstock for Indian Oil’s upcoming 300-KTA textile yarn manufacturing project at Bhadrak in Odisha.

The integrated paraxylene (PX) and purified terephthalic acid (PTA) complex plant in Paradip will be set up at an estimated investment of Rs 13,805 crore to facilitate textile sector.

The project will generate approximately fifty lakh man-days of employment over the three-year plant construction period, he said.

The petrochemicals complex will have a PX production capacity of 800,000 ton per annum, which would be the feedstock for the manufacturing of PTA, a raw material for the production of polyester. The capacity of PTA production would be 1 200,000 ton per annum.

Indian Oil’s MEG production facility is already under implementation and will become operational by the end of 2021.