NRL ships 40 MT FRPW to Indonesia and Dominican Republic

An export consignment comprising 40 Metric Tonnes (MT) of Fully Refined Paraffin Wax (FRPW) was flagged off to Indonesia and Dominican Republic from Numaligarh Refinery today.

The consignment was flagged off from NRL's Marketing Terminal today by the refinery's General Manager (Tech) N Borthakur.

With this, the total export of Paraffin Wax from NRL's Wax Plant stands at 2,172 MT, an NRL release said.

Earlier, NRL Wax has been exported to Mexico, Kenya, Nepal, Bangladesh, Nicaragua, Thailand, Hong Kong (China) and Brazil.

The refinery is also pursuing opportunities to export Wax to a few other countries in the near future, the release said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had dedicated NRL's Wax Plant to the country on February 5, 2016.

The 50,000 MT Wax Plant commissioned in March 2015 at a cost of Rs 676 crore, is the country's largest wax producing unit with indigenous technology developed by IIP Dehradun, EIL and NRL.

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