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Vadodara Manufacturing Division(VMD) is the manufactory of Reliance Industries Limited located at Vadodara, Gujarat, India. Naphtha is the main raw material of this manufactory which is sourced from RIL’s Jamnagar refinery. A Naphtha cracker facility crackes the Naphtha and feeds the downstream plants. Naptha cracking produces ethylene and propylene which are the feed-stocks for polyethylene and polypropylene plants. The manufactory consists integrated utilities system which includes raw water, cooling water, demineralized water, fire water, compressed air, nitrogen, steam/condensate and a Captive Power Plant(CPP).

History
The construction was started in 1970 under the ownership of IPCL, Commercial production at the complex commenced in 1973. In the year 2002 RIL took over IPCL and renamed it as Vadodara Manufacturing Division (VMD).