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Engro Polymer resumes production after gas incident ( EPCL )

Engro Polymer and Chemicals Limited (EPCL) has started production activities at its plant, revealed a notification from EPCL to PSX dated today i.e. March 16th, 2020.

To recall, an isolated incident of gas leak occurred at the EPCL, Port Qasim on March 6 2020. As a precautionary measure, specific areas of the plant had been taken offline.

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