Indorama
A major project to give a bottle and packaging-grade PET plant in Poland a new lease of life has been completed successfully, greatly increasing the facility's capacity.
Plant engineering and construction specialists, Uhde Inventa-Fischer, announced the news that the revamp had reached its conclusion this month (September 18th 2014).
The facility is owned by Indorama Ventures Poland and is based in Wloclawek, to the west of Warsaw. The capacity of the polycondensation plant, which was built and commissioned by Uhde Inventa-Fischer in 2002, has been increased from 160,000 to 216,000 tonnes per annum.
Simultaneously, production costs have been considerably reduced through economies of scale and an improvement in energy and feedstock efficiency.
The revamp, which focused on optimising all reactors, product pipe systems and utilities, was implemented swiftly and efficiently in order to achieve minimum plant downtime without compromising high quality standards. Uhde Inventa-Fischer's scope of supplies included both basic and detailed engineering work, the supply of all core equipment and supervision of the refurbishment and recommissioning processes.
