Our work in India

We are present in the chemical sector through Versalis which, through its subsidiary Versalis Pacific Trading (Shanghai), signed an agreement with the Indian company Reliance Industries Ltd. for the marketing of styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) produced in the new Indian plant. The agreement for the sale of this material followed the licensing agreement already signed by the two partners in 2011, when Versalis granted a technology and know-how licence for the production of 140 thousand tons per year of emulsion styrene-butadiene rubber, aiming at the tyre market segment. As part of the valorization of proprietary technologies and the strengthening of Eni presence in the Asian continent, Versalis has licensed the mass continuous technology to Supreme Petrochem Ltd, an Indian market-leader in compact and expandable polystyrene, to create a plant in Maharashtra (India). This is a technology that allows one to produce styrene polymers with reduced environmental impact, thanks to low emission and low energy consumption.