AlwaysFree: Switzerland’s Clariant, US Lummus Wins Technology Contract For India’s First PDH Plant

Lummus Technology and its catalysts partner, Clariant Catalysts, said they had won a contract to provide CATOFIN process technology and catalysts for India’s first propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plant operated by state-owned GAIL. The 500,000 tons/year plant will be built in Usar, Maharashtra, and will be integrated with a polypropylene (PP) unit. The $1.2-billion PDH-PP project is expected to start operations by 2024.