RIL's current PTA capacity is 9,75,000 tones a year, which is slated to increase to 1.9 million tones after the existing opening out. Pakistan PTA was created after the PTA industry was demerged from ICI Pakistan in 2001.
It remains a member of the worldwide ICI group. Incidentally, RIL had acquired ICI's polyester fibre business in India in the early 1990s.
The UK-based multinational was influential in producing polyester fibre for the first time in India by setting up a plant at Thane in Maharashtra.
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