Takht-e-Jamshid Pars Assaluyeh Petrochemical Co. (TJPAPC) has started production of General Purpose Polystyrene (GPPS) as of Tuesday.
Managing Director of the TJPAPC Mohammad-Reza Akhavan told
Shana that the project had been successfully implemented using Japanese Toyo
Company technology.
He said Managing Direction of National Petrochemical Company
(NPC) Marzieh Shahdaie had supported the project.
He added that Iranian technicians were fully involved in the
whole phases of the project.
The TJPAPC is the first GPPS production unit, operating in
Pars Energy and Special Economic Zone, in the year designated by Supreme Leader
of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei as the year of Resistive
Economy, Action and Implementation.
He added that his company plans production of 65,000
tons/year of GPPS, HIPS, XPS and 120,000 tons of EPS.