Mott MacDonald has been appointed detailed design engineer by Nakoda
Ltd. for expansion of the company’s polyester facility located at
Karanj in Surat district. The appointment follows a detailed technical
economic feasibility study done last year.
Nakoda is one of the largest manufacturers of polyester yarn and has
been processing fully drawn yarn, partially-oriented yarn (POY) and
textured yarn for a number of years. The INR 2340 million investment
will see Nakoda manufacture additional specialty products, allowing it
to produce the entire range of polyester yarns and ensuring an
increase in spinning capacity from 90,000 tonnes to 140,000 tonnes a
year for the domestic and international markets.
Mott MacDonald is providing detailed design engineering services for
the plant expansion, including 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.
Ghanshyam Shah, Mott MacDonald’s project director, said: “Demand for
yarn has been growing at a rate of 8-9% annually. With a shortage of
yarn procession and weaving facilities, a number of textile parks are
being set up in Gujarat. Surat in south Gujarat produces around 60% of
the country’s total synthetic yarn, and Nakoda has emerged as a key
manufacturer and trader of POY, polyester textured yarn and polyester
filament yarn. We are delighted to have been appointed by Nakoda to
help them with their expansion programme. We’ve also supported them
during the development of their recently completed new 400 tonne per
day CP plant”.
Mott MacDonald is a global management, engineering and development
consultancy with more than 14,000 staff and £1 billion revenue and
operate in 140 countries both for the public and private sectors. For
six consecutive years the employee-owned company has featured in the
Sunday Times’ 25 Best Big Companies to Work For survey.
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and communications development.