Global InformationBrahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Limited information
| Company type | Public |
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| Industry | Polymer |
| Founded | 5 February 2016 |
| Headquarters | Lepetkata, Dibrugarh , India |
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| Website | bcplonline |
Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Limited (commonly abbreviated as the BCPL) is a public sector undertaking situated at Lepetkata, Dibrugarh City, Assam, India. Included in the Assam Accord as an Assam Gas Cracker Project, the construction of BCPL was launched by then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on 9 April 2007 and it was inaugurated for production on 5 February 2016 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
GAIL (India) Limited is the main promoter with 70% equity participation and the rest of the equity stakes are owned equally by the Government of Assam, Numaligarh Refinery and Oil India. Ethylene, propylene, Linear low-density polyethylene, high-density polyethylene and polypropylene are the different petro-products and polymers produced by the plant currently and two production units for hydrogenated pyrolysis gasoline and 1-Butene are under construction.