DCM Shriram Limited has commissioned its Epichlorohydrin (ECH) plant of 35,000 TPA at its Chemical complex in Jhagadia, Bharuch, Gujarat today. The balance capacity of 17,000 TPA will be commissioned shortly.

ECH serves as an all-important link between the existing Chlor-alkali business vertical and the vertical of "advanced materials", as on one side ECH is a chlorinedownstream product and on the other, ECH is a key raw material for producing "liquid epoxy resins".

Unlike most other plants in the world today that use propylene (a non-green input) as a raw material, this state-of-the art plant benefits from cutting edge European technology and is greener, using "glycerine", a by-product of the Bio-diesel production process, as its raw material.