India needs to boost its petchem output to counter China's dominance, Reliance says

NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India needs to increase its petrochemical production capacity to meet local and global demand and contain China's growing dominance of the sector, a senior Reliance Industries official said on Friday. Petrochemical margins have shrunk across the world as China’s capacity expansion has created a surplus. For some of its refiners, up to 40%-50% of their output can be petchems, more than double typical capacity levels in India.