Ghardia Plastics says that this collaborative development with other industrial partners is aimed at applications that require very high wear resistance. The G-PAEK product family is based on polyetherketone (PEK) and GAZOLE - representing freshly commercialised thermoplastic alloys of PEK and polybenzimidazole (PBI)
Mumbai-based Gharda Chemicals Ltd. plans to open a commercial scale plant in Panoli, India for making specialised engineering resins polyetherketone, polyetheretherketone and polybenzimidazole, using what it says is a new production method. The company will decide final capacity and investment details later this year, and is aiming for an April 2015 start-up for the new facility.
"Ghrada is building a major commercial plant," said Prakash Trivedi, head of the polymer strategic business unit for Gharda. Trivedi added that the company process for making PEK is produced with a single monomer and is based in chlorine rather than fluorine like other PEK manufacturers. He said PEK capacity could be up to 1,000 metric tons annually.
