Shell sets up bitumen plant in WB
With nearly $1 billion invested already, the company is the largest and most diversified international investor in India’s energy sector.
By TNN |
KOLKATA: Shell has set up a bitumen plant in West Bengal, the global energy major’s first such unit in the country. The plant located at Uluberia close to Kolkata, is a modified bitumen production unit that will produce a range of products, emulsions, crumb rubber modified bitumen and polymer modified bitumen.. The plant, which was launched on December 21, will have a capacity of 50,000 tonnes per annum which can be expanded to meet market demand, the company said in a statement issued on Thursday.
Commenting on the development, Mr. Egbert Veldman, global vice president, Shell Bitumen, said: “The Shell bitumen plant at Uluberia will bring to India, best-in-class pavement solutions for highways and airport runways as well as some specialist applications. Further assets in bitumen would be needed to be built to support the reach of Shell bitumen in India based on market growth. We are here to partner the growth of infrastructure in India in the long term."
With nearly $1 billion invested already, the company is the largest and most diversified international investor in India’s energy sector.
Shell is also one of the world’s largest and most advanced providers of polymer modified bitumen and bitumen emulsion. The company is positioned as a solution provider, developing tailor-made, best fit-for-purpose products based on customer needs. It typically works with both the contractor and the owner of airport runways/ major bridge projects/highways etc to provide the most suitable and best product suited to need and application.
Mr. Vikram Singh Mehta, Chairman, Shell Group of Companies in India said, “Shell has entered the India market in bitumen with twin objectives : to leverage over 80 years of experience across the world in building safe, high quality roads to the benefit of India and, thereby, to build a long standing profitable bitumen business in India.”
Recent successes in The Philippines, where Shell provided a system for turning a rural unbounded road into a fit-for-purpose paved road and China, bear testimony to its ability to raise overall quality of the market, which according to Shell, is critical to development of road infrastructure in India.
Commenting on the development, Mr. Egbert Veldman, global vice president, Shell Bitumen, said: “The Shell bitumen plant at Uluberia will bring to India, best-in-class pavement solutions for highways and airport runways as well as some specialist applications. Further assets in bitumen would be needed to be built to support the reach of Shell bitumen in India based on market growth. We are here to partner the growth of infrastructure in India in the long term."
With nearly $1 billion invested already, the company is the largest and most diversified international investor in India’s energy sector.
Shell is also one of the world’s largest and most advanced providers of polymer modified bitumen and bitumen emulsion. The company is positioned as a solution provider, developing tailor-made, best fit-for-purpose products based on customer needs. It typically works with both the contractor and the owner of airport runways/ major bridge projects/highways etc to provide the most suitable and best product suited to need and application.
Mr. Vikram Singh Mehta, Chairman, Shell Group of Companies in India said, “Shell has entered the India market in bitumen with twin objectives : to leverage over 80 years of experience across the world in building safe, high quality roads to the benefit of India and, thereby, to build a long standing profitable bitumen business in India.”
Recent successes in The Philippines, where Shell provided a system for turning a rural unbounded road into a fit-for-purpose paved road and China, bear testimony to its ability to raise overall quality of the market, which according to Shell, is critical to development of road infrastructure in India.
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