Kutch Chemical Industries has set up a caustic soda unit with a capacity of 12.6 lakh tpa at Varsana village in Kachchh district of Gujarat, as per latest information gathered by Projects Today.
The project has been developed at a cost of Rs 1,000 crore.
The project developed over 74 acre of land parcel includes products -- Caustic Soda (100 percent) Lye/ Prills/ Flakes of 2,16,000 million tpa, Caustic Potash (100 percent) Lye/ Flakes of 36,000 million tpa, Chlorine Gas/ Liquid of 2,12,900 million tpa, Hydrochloric acid (32 percent) of 1,80,000 million tpa, Calcium Chloride (100 percent) of 60,000 million tpa, among others.
The unit also includes a coal based captive power plant of 100 MW. The total fresh water requirement will be 6,304 kld by maximising recycle and reuse concept and achieving ZLD which will be met from GWIL (Narmada Canal).
The Kutch Chemical Industries, the developer of the project received terms of reference (ToR) in the year 2016, but had to wait till February 2018 to get environmental clearance from the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEF&CC).
The project was supposed to begin by April 2017 but was delayed due to necessary clearances. Once the green nod and other necessary approvals were in place, the work on the project began.
By December 2018, around 70 percent of the civil work on the project was completed and machinery erection work was underway.
The project has now been completed. Jobs for 500 persons will be created through this projects.