Reliance Industries Ltd and Sibur have forged a partnership to seize the opportunities within the robustly growing synthetic rubber industry. This has led to the formation of Reliance Sibur Elastomers Private Limited, a joint venture where in Reliance holds 74.9 % stake and SIBUR owns 25.1%. This joint venture is South Asia’s first butyl and halogenated butyl rubber production facility at Jamnagar, India with a world scale capacity of 120,000 metric tonnes per annum.
Butyl Rubber is known for its excellent air retention characteristics, apart from very good weather, heat and chemical resistance properties in comparison to other general purpose rubbers. These attributes make it first choice of polymer for several critical products like Automotive Inner Tubes, Tyre Curing Bladders and Air Bags, Cable Insulation, Rubber Sheets, Pharmaceutical Closures, Ball Bladders, Sealants, Roofing Membranes, Condenser packing, Printing Rolls, and Acid Tank Linings etc. A Special grade of this rubber could even be used for Chewing Gums. Its unique molecular structure possesses greater delayed elastic response and it’s this damping and shock absorption attribute is being utilized in automotive suspension assembly.
Key ingredient required to manufacture Butyl Rubber (IIR) and Halogenated butyl Rubber (HIIR) is High Purity iso-Butylene (HPIB). This HPIB supplies are available from Reliance’s refinery that currently has processing capacity of 1.4 million barrels per day. The integration of our world-class refinery to our IIR and HIIR plant ensures an uninterrupted supply of elastomers from RSEPL.
Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) is India’s largest private sector company. RIL is the first private sector company from India to feature in Fortune’s Global 500 list of 'World's Largest Corporations' ranking 88th in terms of revenues in 2023. RIL ranks 45th on the Forbes Global 2000 list (2023), continuing to be the top-ranked Indian company. RIL’s activities span across new energy and new materials, hydrocarbon exploration and production, petroleum refining and marketing, petrochemicals, retail, telecommunications and digital services and, media and entertainment.
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SIBUR is one of the most dynamic companies and the Russian leader in terms of the production of polymers and rubbers. SIBUR manufactures products that are essential for society, uses advanced technologies to create new opportunities and invests in social infrastructure, thus improving the quality of people’s lives. The company’s development is driven by partnership and exchanges of experience, continuous growth, ambitious goals and a commitment to sustainability. A unique, vertically integrated business model enables the company to create highly competitive products that are used in many sectors of the economy all around the world: construction, the food industry, medicine and pharmaceuticals, agriculture and the automotive industry, among others.
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