Thailand-based Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited, the world's leading vertically integrated polyester chain producer, in collaboration with Denmark-based FiberVisions, a global leader in developing, manufacturing and marketing polyolefin staple fibers for nonwoven applications, is planning to set up a bicomponent fibre plant in Rayong, a city located in the east coast region of Thailand.

 

“We are going to build a brownfield bicomponent fibre factory within our current Indorama Polyester Industries plant,” a company spokesperson told fibre2fashion.

 

According to the company representative, the plant will have the capacity to produce 14,500 metric tonnes of bicomponent fibres annually which will be used in the hygiene industry. 

 

“The construction of the building will start this year and the plant is scheduled to begin its operations by first half of 2015,” he informs.

 

When asked about the reason for setting up the bicomponent fibre factory, he says, “Our company is aware that there is growing demand for bicomponent fibres in Asia.”

 

Bicomponent fibres are mainly used in advanced applications, including medical textiles, geotextiles, package textiles, industrial textiles, automotive textiles, protective textiles, etc.

 

IVL is the second-largest PET producer in North America and the largest in Europe. Besides PET resin, the company also produces fibers and yarns from polyester and polyolefins in the United States, Germany, Denmark, Ireland, China, Thailand and Indonesia and last year the firm entered the oxides and glycols business in Texas, US.