TEHRAN June 28(Shana)--Kermanshah Polymer Plant produced 291,000 tons of petrochemicals during the previous Iranian calendar year which came to an end March 2015.

According to the managing director of the plant, its output was 97% of its nameplate capacity due to the lack of ethylene required for production of polymers.
Hussein Sabaq said the plant's daily output is at 30 tons of different petrochemicals.

Kermanshah Polymer Plant is constructed is an area of 60 hectares with the nameplate capacity of 300,000 tons of polyethylene annually.
The plant is one of the numerous petrochemical plants constructed along West Ethylene Pipeline.

Initiated in 2002, the pipeline is to carry ethylene from Assaluyeh, south of Iran, to western provinces of Khuzestan, Lorestan, Chaharmahal Bakhtiari, Kohguiluyeh Boyer Ahmad, Kermanshah, Kurdestan, and West Azerbaijan.
More than 11 petrochemical plants are to be fed by the pipeline.

By SHANA