1:80 min Facts & Figures, Fiber, filament, woven, strapping, Extrusion lines
Recognition

CONSENT & Gneuss: Largest producer of PET Strapping in UAE receives Middle East Waste & Recycling Award

CONSENT, based in Dubai collects over 6.000 tonnes of PET bottles from waste sites ...
0:47 min Facts & Figures, Fiber lines
Shutdown

Closure of staple fiber operations at DAK Americas' Cooper River Site

DAK Americas LLC (DAK) announced its plan to close the Polyester Staple Fiber(PSF) manufacturing operations at its Cooper River Site, near Charleston, SC. The site will continue to produce PET Resins to serve the bottle and packaging markets on its newer capacity installed in 2003.
1:20 min Facts & Figures, Staple fibers, fibers, filaments
Acquisition

Indorama Ventures completes acquisition of Brazil’s Largest polyester fibers plant

Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL), a global chemical producer, announced the completion of its acquisition of M&G Fibras Brasil, in Cabo de Santo Agostinho, Brazil. The Cabo plant manufactures and supplies Polyester Staple Fiber, with total polymerization capacity of ...
1:46 min Fiber, filament, woven, strapping, Recycling & Compounding, PET recycling systems, …
PET Recycling

GNEUSS and CONSENT Plastic: Innovative production of PET strapping tapes made of bottle flakes, without pre-drying or crystallisation

CONSENT Plastic, a company of the Arabian CONSENT GROUP which was founded in 1975, ...
1:55 min Fiber, filament, woven, strapping, Melt filtration, screen changer, PET recycling systems, …
PET strapping

CYKLOP® uses high-efficiency screen changer from Nordson to boost productivity and cut costs in extruding PET strapping tape

Nordson’s BKG® HiCon™ V-Type 3G screen changer reduces number of screen changes and ...
3:34 min Staple fibers, fibers, filaments, Fiber lines, …

A new playground for PET

Polyester is a widespread polymer: PES fibers have been used for decades in textile ...
2:50 min Staple fibers, fibers, filaments, Biobased Material, PET materials

Toray succeeds in production of the world's first fully renewable, biobased polyethylene terephthalate (PET) fiber

Toray Industries, Inc. (Head Office: Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan; President, CEO & COO: ...
3:17 min Facts & Figures, Staple fibers, fibers, filaments

IVL to acquire Wellman International's recycling and fiber business

Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited, the world's leading vertically integrated Polyester Value Chain producer, has signed an agreement to acquire Wellman International's recycling business in Europe from AURELIUS AG, to pursue customers' sustainability needs and meet the demands ...