Mott MacDonald
has been appointed
as detailed
design engineer by
Nakoda Ltd for the
expansion of its polyester
facility located at
Karanj in Surat district
of Gujarat.
The
234-crore investment will
see Nakoda manufacture additional
speciality products, allowing
the company to produce the
entire range of polyester yarns,
and will see an increase in spinning
capacity from 90,000 tpa to
140,000 tpa for the domestic and
international markets.
Mott MacDonald will
provide detailed design
engineering services for
the plant expansion,
which includes architecture,
civil and structural,
mechanical and electrical,
plumbing, process
and instrumentation
aspects. The design includes heat
recovery systems from gas turbine
exhausts which will run vapour
absorption machines for air conditioning.
There will also be substantial
energy saving for using
direct melt transfer from continuous
polymerisation (CP) to POY
spinning facility.