‘Industrial corridors passing through A.P. dovetail with largest PCPIR near Kakinada’ Industries and Commerce Minister Mekapati Goutham Reddy on Wednesday said that Andhra Pradesh was looking to build self-sufficiency in petrochemical products and drive economies of scale in the downstream chemical industries. For the development of the Petroleum, Chemical and Petrochemical Investment Region (PCPIR), Andhra Pradesh is enabling co-location of bulk, intermediate and speciality petrochemicals players. Besides, the State is talking to MNCs to facilitate joint ventures and technology transfer for introducing key intermediates. Participating in ‘India Chem 2021’, an international conference jointly organised by the Department of Chemicals & Petrochemicals and FICCI in New Delhi, Mr. Goutham Reddy said the Visakhapatnam-Chennai, Chennai - Bangalore and Hyderabad-Bangalore industrial corridors, which pass through Andhra Pradesh, dovetail with the largest PCPIR in the nation spread across 640 square km between Visakhapatnam and Kakinada.