Reliance Industries successfully starts-up new world-scale UNIPOL™ PE Process Plant

HOUSTON - July 16, 2019 - Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) announced in January 2018 that it successfully started up and achieved design capacity in the new world-scale polyethylene plant using Univation Technologies’ UNIPOL™ PE Process. The plant is located at RIL’s integrated Refinery-Petrochemicals complex at Jamnagar, India.

RIL’s plant is capable of producing a wide array of polyethylene products, including unimodal & bimodal HDPE, MDPE, Metallocene & LLDPE.

“We are very pleased with the close working relationships that the Univation and Reliance teams have developed over the course of the project, and we look forward to supporting Reliance’s continued success in their PE resins business,” said Steven Stanley, President of Univation Technologies.

About Univation Technologies

Univation Technologies is the global leader in licensed polyethylene technology. Univation has a proven track record of delivering process, product, and catalyst technologies as well as related technical services to the global polyethylene industry for more than 50 years. More than one-third of all HDPE and LLDPE resins produced globally is supplied by the industry-leading UNIPOL™ PE Process. Univation is also the world’s leading manufacturer and supplier of conventional and advanced polyethylene polymerization catalysts designed specifically for the UNIPOL™ PE Process. For more information, visit www.univation.com.

UNIPOL is a trademark of The Dow Chemical Company (“Dow”) or an affiliated company of Dow, licensed for use to Univation Technologies.

About Reliance Industries Limited

RIL is India’s largest private sector company with a consolidated turnover of INR 622,809 crore ($90.1 billion), cash profit of INR 64,478 crore ($9.3 billion), and net profit of INR 39,588 crore ($5.7 billion) for the year ended March 31, 2019. RIL’s activities span hydrocarbon, exploration and production, petroleum refining and marketing, petrochemicals, retail, and digital services.

RIL is the first private sector company from India to feature in Fortune’s Global 500 list of ‘World’s Largest Corporations’ – currently ranking 148th in terms of revenues and 99th in terms of profits. The company stands 71st in the ‘Forbes Global 2000’ rankings for 2019 – top-most among Indian companies. It ranks 10th among LinkedIn’s ‘The Best Companies to Work for in India’ (2019).

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