In September 2009, Uhde Inventa-Fischer successfully commissioned the first line of Indorama’s latest PET resin plant in Alabama (USA). The second line came on stream in June 2010. The plant has an annual capacity of 432,000 tons and uses Uhde Inventa-Fischer’s proprietary patented MTR®…

Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL) is pleased to announce the official opening of its 432,000 tons a year PET resin plant, AlphaPet Inc, at Decatur, Alabama, USA on June 03, 2010. The opening marks the start-up of AlphaPet Line 2. The plant, which is co-located on the site of BP…

Eastman Chemical Company (NYSE:EMN) today announced it will review strategic options, including a possible divestiture, for its PET business in the Performance Polymers segment. The company has retained Bank of America Merrill Lynch as its exclusive financial advisor for the strategic review. …

Leveraging its strengths in innovation, in its assets and its operational excellence, the INVISTA European DMT and Polyester business is looking at each aspect of the business for further growth opportunities and improvements. The key focus areas for the business remain innovation and creating…

AQUAFIL Engineering GmbH (Berlin, Germany) announces the successful start-up of a Polyester Polycondensation Plant for BOPET Film in India with the latest state of the art AQUAFIL Engineering Technology. The speciality of the plant is the Direct Film Casting Technology (DFC) of AQUAFIL Engineering…

Uhde Inventa-Fischer has won a contract for a textile-grade polyester plant with their customer Petrovietnam-Vinatex Dinh Vu Petrochemical and Fiber Joint Stock Company, Vietnam (PVTex). The main contractor is a consortium of Hyundai Engineering, Seoul/Korea, LG International Corporation,…

Uhde Inventa-Fischer has entered into a contract with the Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) to provide the technology license and the complete basic engineering of the 2nd PET Resin expansion of its manufacturing affiliate, Arabian Industrial Fiber Company (Ibn Rushd) at its site in Yanbu,…

2008 NatureWorks LLC is launching Ingeo™ 3251D, a new and improved injection molding grade of Ingeo™ biopolymer. This new Ingeo™ grade has been designed specifically for the consumer goods segments such as electronics, cosmetics, housewares, toys and custom molding.This new grade, Ingeo™ 3251D…

BASF SE  has awarded a contract to engineer and supply its proprietary 2 R process for the BASF Ecoflex® project to Uhde Inventa-Fischer. The plant will be built in Ludwigshafen (Germany) and will have an annual capacity of 60,000 tons of Ecoflex® polymer. It is scheduled to start production in…

Motan ETA-process® technology   Cost-efficency is highly valued everywhere. In plastics processing, the drying of hygroscopic plastics is a cost factor which is not to be underestimated. At first glance, some conventional, low-priced drying systems reach an efficiency of less than 50%. Motan dryers…

Even during the off-season in Europe there is a highlight to be found in Lithuania, one of the most recent member states of the European Union. The continuous PET resin plant of Orion Global PET, owned by the Indorama group of Thailand and situated in Klaipeda, is producing at more than 130% of its…

In December 2007, Uhde Inventa-Fischer was awarded a third major contract by Kuibyshev Azot to construct a further polyamide 6 plant. The total capacity of this plant is about 54,000 tpa.   The cooperation between Uhde Inventa-Fischer and Kuibyshev Azot dates back to 2004. In June 2004, the first…