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APL expansion to start on Friday

Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal will lay the foundation stone of the APL Expansion project in Namrup on Friday.

Disclosing this at a press meet on Tuesday, APL managing director  Ratul Bordoloi said " the manufacturing cost for  the new APL Expansion Project is Rs 1338 crores and it will be becompleted approximately within 3 years . After the completion of the project it will produce 500 TPD of  Methanol per day.”   

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