IVL Pushes Its PIA Plant Capacity to 440,000 MT/Annum by Commencing the USA Plant
IVL has announced a commercial production startup at Purified Isophthalic Acid (PIA) Plant in USA.
Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL) has announced the commencement of commercial production of Purified Isophthalic Acid (PIA) plant at Indorama Ventures Xylenes & PTA, LLC (IVXP), located at Decatur, Alabama, USA w.e.f December 23, 2018.
The Decatur PIA Plant would complement the existing PIA Plant of IVL at IVL Quimica, Spain. The two PIA plants have a combined capacity of 440,000 MT/Annum and IVL is the only PIA producer with dual facilities in the two large consumption continents of EMEA and America’s serving the needs of PET and Speciality chemicals. Significant part of aromatic feedstock used in PIA production is secured on long-term basis from suppliers in USA and Europe.
Decatur, Alabama is IVL’s largest PET Value Chain location with Paraxylene, PTA, NDC and PET polymers production and now is complemented with PIA production. The combined site capacity is over 2 million tons of integrated production with MEG coming from IVL’s Olefins plant in Clear Lake, Texas by barges. Recently approved JV investment by IVL in Corpus Christi, Texas integrated PTA & PET project together with IVL Decatur plant and Clear Lake Olefin plant is expected to be the most supply chain efficient PET Value Chain nexus in America’s.
The PIA technology is proprietary and owned by Indorama Ventures Quimica, Spain.
