India's  Reliance  Industries  Limited or RIL will make its first term paraxylene export to China 

from the second phase of its new 2.2 million mt/year plant at Jamnagar at end April, industry 

sources said Wednesday. 

Of the 35,000 mt of PX due to load from Sikka in Gujarat on the MT Bunga Angelica, 15,000 

mt will be discharged at Dalian in China under term contracts, sources said. 

The rest will form part of Reliance's regular shipments to the region. 

The volume en route to China is output from the second phase of Reliance's aromatics plant, 

which  a  source  close  to the  company said had been ramping up since early April and was 

operating at a "fairly high rate now." 

The first phase of the plant was commissioned last December. 

In  addition, 10,000  mt  of benzene output from the plant was heard to have been sold on a 

spot  basis  for  May  loading, industry  sources  said, although  further  details could not be 

verified. 

The No.2 Reliance plant at Jamnagar has a nameplate production capacity of 2.2 million mt/year of PX and 500,000 mt/year of benzene. 

It more than doubles RIL's PX production capacity to 4.2 million mt/year, making it the world's second-largest PX producer with 9% of global PX capacity and 11% share of global production, the company said in a statement announcing the commissioning the first phase of the plant last December.