Making its first foray into the biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) film market, India’s SRF (Gurgaon; www.srf.com) has ordered a new 8.7 metre wide BOPP line from Germany’s Brückner (Siegsdorf; www.brueckner.com). The new EUR 40m line will be located in Durban / South Africa.

SRF claims to be India’s second largest thin PET film manufacturer, with overall capacity for 60,000 t/y. The group operates plants manufacturing technical textiles in Dubai / United Arab Emirates, Port Elizabeth / South Africa and Rayong / Thailand. Over the past four years, the group has invested roughly EUR 200m into expandings its Technical Fabrics, Chemicals & Polymers and Packaging Films business units. SRF's 5,500 employees generated sales of EUR 537.7m in financial 2010/2011 (31.03.).