Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL; Bangkok, Thailand; www.indoramaventures.com) announced the commencement of commercial production of purified isophthalic acid (PIA) plant at Indorama Ventures Xylenes & PTA, LLC, located at Decatur, Alabama, USA
The Decatur PIA plants complement IVL’s existing PIA Plant at IVL Quimica, Spain. The two PIA plants have a combined nameplate capacity of 440,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) ,and IVL is the only PIA
producer with dual facilities in the two large-consumption regions of EMEA and Americas serving the needs of PET and specialty chemicals producers. 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.