Global PET producer Indorama has completed the upgrade and expansion of its bottle and packaging grade PET production plant in Wloclawek, Poland.
The company has spent around €20m on the expansion, with the work carried out by engineering group Inventa-Fischer, which originally commissioned the facility in 2002.
With the completion of the expansion project, the polycondensation plant capacity has been increased from around 160,000tpa to 216,000tpa at the site.
As reported in European Plastics News, the production costs have been considerably reduced through economies of scale and an improvement in energy and feedstock efficiency.
Instead of installing a new line, the efficiency project was ordered by Indorama Ventures Poland, part of the Thai Indorama Group. The project was carried out to enable the firm to meet growing PET resin demand in eastern Europe.
The plant is located in Poland’s Pomeranian Special Economic Zone to the west of Warsaw. It was founded in 2002 and started operations in May 2005.
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