After being put into operation at the beginning of 2005 the plant in Panipat/India, which is operated by the Indian Oil Corporation Ltd./ India, will produce almost 600,000 tons of terephthalic acid per year. Terephthalic acid is an intermediate product in the petrochemical industry which is used to manufacture plastics and coatings as well as in the fibre industry. The process user is Dupont, Great Britain. MAN TURBO, one of the leading machine manufacturers for PTA plants, already built a plant for similar process conditions in Taiwan in the mid-1990s.