Reliance inaugurates customer support centre for elastomers at Vadodara

Relflex Elastomers, synthetic rubber business group of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), has inaugurated a state-of-the-art Elastomers Customer Support Centre (ECSC) at its petrochemicals complex in Vadodara, Gujarat. This initiative is in line with Reliance’s endeavour to become not only a significant synthetic rubber supplier but also to provide intangible technical support to its customers and play a catalytic role in helping them grow their business, increase value additions and reduce import dependence.
 
Relflex ECSC would serve as a springboard for mutual collaborative efforts, value additions and joint product development between Relflex Elastomers and its customers. The facility will service tyre as well non-tyre industry. Reliance Elastomer supplies Polybutadiene Rubber (PBR) to tyre manufacturers across all segments.
 
Currently, RIL is producing 80 KTA PBR in Vadodara, Gujarat. An additional 40 KTA of PBR is under commissioning at Hazira in Gujarat and would start delivering this additional volume to the user industry by the end of this month. With this new capacity, Reliance will have a unique advantage of being a producer with a capability to produce 3 different catalysts based PBR, ie Nickel, Cobalt and Neodymium, to cater varied needs of downstream industry.
 
In addition, Reliance Industries is also coming up with a 150 KTA emulsion SBR plant which would be capable of producing both oil extended and non-oil grades. The plant is expected to start by end of May 2014.
 
RIL also has a JV with Sibur, Russia for making world-class butyl rubber in India.
The butyl rubber plant is coming up in Jamnagar and would have a capacity to produce
100 KTA. It is expected to start by 2015 end.