Phillips Carbon Black Commissions New Power Plant

Phillips Carbon Black has invested in a means of converting excess gas into energy and financial savings. The India based company has announced the commissioning of its 30 MW co-generation power plant Durgapur, in the state of West Bengal. The Rs 1 billion (£11.6 million) facility, which utilising the waste gas produced during the process to generate power, was commissioned on September 29.

An RPG Enterprises group (who also owns tyre manufacturer Ceat) company, Phillips Carbon Black is India’s largest, and the world’s seventh largest, manufacturer of carbon black, and the company sells carbon black to almost every tyre company in India. Its three plants currently account for 70 per cent of India’s installed capacity. The company is also Asia`s largest exporter of the commodity.

Other current company projects include the construction of a new 80,000 tonne carbon black production facility in Mundra, India, due to be commissioned by March 2009, and a 100,000 tonne facility in Vietnam. Phillips Carbon Black is also expanding the capacity of its Cochin, India plant from 40,000 tonnes to 100,000 tonnes.