ES FiberVisions (ESFV), a joint venture between FiberVisions LLC, a subsidiary of Indorama Ventures PCL (Bangkok, Thailand; www.indoramaventures.com), and Japan’s JNC Corp. held an opening ceremony to celebrate the completion of its newest plant in Rayong, Thailand. This facility was constructed adjacent to Thailand’s largest fiber facility to expand ESFV’s global production capacity and produce the highest quality bicomponent fiber in a hygienic environment. The plant has capacity to produce 14,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) and was designed to allow for future expansion as ESFV continues to invest globally to meet the needs of its customers.
The ES FiberVisions joint venture is the world’s largest producer of polyolefin bicomponent fibers and has production facilities in China, Denmark, Japan, Thailand and the United States.
The partners also announced that they would be expanding bicomponent manufacturing at the FiberVisions facility in Covington, Georgia, USA. The expanded capacity is expected to be online at the end of 2017. This initiative will support the growing need for bicomponent fibers in the hygiene and industrial sectors in the Americas.
Growth in Asia is being further supported with a previously announced expansion of the ES FiberVisions Suzhou Co., Ltd. plant in Jiangsu Province, China. This facility started production in 2014. The expansion will double its capacity to over 28,000 m.t./yr, and is expected to be completed in the summer of 2018. A groundbreaking ceremony for a new warehouse and ancillary facilities was held in mid-December.