# GAIL lets contract to Lummus Technology and Clariant for PP expansion in Usar

GAIL (India) Ltd. awarded a contract to Lummus Technology and Clariant Catalysts for a $1.2 billion propane dehydrogenation and polypropylene plant at Usar, Maharashtra, with 500,000 tpy PP capacity. The project is scheduled for startup by 2024.

- Type: Contract
- Announced: 2021-10-22
- Where: Usar, Tehsil Alibag, District Raigad, Maharashtra, India
- Value: $1.20B
- Status: announced
- Capacity: 500,000 tonnes/year of polypropylene
- Products: polypropylene, propylene, C4 LPG
- Sectors: [Specialty Chemicals](https://endata.com/sectors/specialty-chemicals.md), [Plastics and Polymers](https://endata.com/sectors/plastics-polymers.md)

## Companies

- [GAIL India Limited](https://endata.com/companies/13798.md)
- [Lummus Technology](https://endata.com/companies/7089.md) (supplier)
- [Clariant International Ltd.](https://endata.com/companies/22219.md) (supplier)

## Sources

- [ogj.com](https://www.ogj.com/refining-processing/petrochemicals/article/14212711/gail-lets-contract-for-usar-polypropylene-expansion-project), 2021-10-22: "As part of the contract, Lummus Technology will license its proprietary CATOFIN process technology for a propane dehydrogenation (PDH) unit—to become India’s first—that will produce propylene feedstock for a new integrated downstream polypropylene (PP) unit for production of 500,000 tonnes/year of P"

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