Chemtex leads the global market in delivering commercial-scale PET plants with unmatched operational efficiency and superior product quality. Our innovations drive down capital investment costs and utility consumptions while maintaining exceptional operability and flexibility across all applications.
Chemtex offers highly competitive polyester polymer facilities with largest single line capacities that result in the lowest capital and operating costs for our clients. A key area of expertise within Chemtex is to build Polyester plants for PET resin (fiber grade, bottle grade and other chips).
Chemtex has a long history of licensing PET plants with Koch Technology Solutions, formerly INVISTA, and its predecessor DuPont. The greatest contribution made by Chemtex and Koch Technology Solutions to the global PET business is scale up of single line capacities, thereby reducing the unit manufacturing cost and significantly improving the project economics.
We have remained the leader in development of commercial-scale PET plants in the world. The value creation is achieved through a continuous development process that heavily relies on industry needs, project location, project economics, and systems management.
Technology Supplier to Industry Leaders
Licensing Dashboard
Superior OPEX, Capital Productivity, Reliability, Flexibility & Long-Term Client Satisfaction
Global Project Experience
Americas, MENA, Europe, Asia
Technology History
W.H. Caruthers discovers polyester
First Polyester patents by Whinfield & Dickson
First commercial production on polyester
First production of Terylene polyester fiber at Wilton and of Melinex® polyester film at Welwyn, both in the UK.
First DuPont patents for stretch blow molded PET
bottles obtained
First DuPont polyester license to SASA with Chemtex as Engineering Partner
Melinar® PET bottle polymer production begins
World's first single stream PET line of 300 TPD built in Fayetteville, NC, USA
DuPont acquires ICI’s polyester licensing business in as DuPont Technology Transfer Group
DuPont's polyester business is acquired by Koch Industries Licensing as part of INVISTA Performance Technologies ("IPT")
World's first single stream PET line of 1,000 TPD built in Altamira, Mexico
World's first single stream PET line of 1,500 TPD built in Suape, Brazil
Chemtex achieves completion of 900 TPD PET plant in 15 months – a new record for a ‘fast track’ project
1,000 kTY of polyester capacity built in India
Start up of two melt lines of 1,800 TPD each producing spherical PET chip in Jiangyin, China
PET chemical recycle plant design activities initiated with goal to achieve 30% recycle content integration to virgin lines
INVISTA Performance Technologies renamed Koch Technology solutions (KTS) under Koch Engineered Solutions
Design of two melt lines of 2,200 TPD sets new record for single-line melt phase PET polymerization
Chemtex supplied plant achieves 12 years of continuous operation demonstrated with "zero polymer waste" and "no shutdown"
Chemtex, KTS, and Polymetrix AG engineer PolyVolve™
PolyVolve™
PolyVolve™ brings a solution to the market that incorporates capital efficiency, reduction in operating costs, recycle capability and superior product quality across all polyester applications.
HIGH PRODUCTIVITY THROUGH LARGE SCALE PLANTS
LOWEST EVER OPEX
FAST TRACK PROJECT EXECUTION
REDUCTION IN CARBON FOOTPRINT
HIGH QUALITY PRODUCT AT LOWER COST
*AS COMPARED TO OUR PREVIOUSLY ESTABLISHED OFFERING
The PolyVolve™ Advantage
Industry Leading Capacity
Annual Single Melt Line Capacity Upscale Over Time
In the competitive market of PET production, Chemtex can supply industry-leading single-stream capacity, allowing our clients to take full advantage of the economies of scale. Our latest developments in technology upscale have created the largest single stream melt line plants in the world, at 800,000 tons per year of production capacity.
Sustainability
PolyVolve™ couples low utility consumption, compact & efficient structure design, and clean emission release to put forth an eco-conscious PET production solution to the market that minimizes the carbon footprint of our clients. The developments of new efficient VOC processing methods, electrical energy generation, and heat recovery from the process plant have shaped PolyVolve™ PET & polyester plants into the industry leaders of sustainable design.
PolyVolve™ offers seamless integration of rPET feed-in, customized to each client’s needs.
Based on capacity, feedstock, and end-use application, PolyVolve™ can be coupled with recycle units via our own in-house technology or through our technology partners.
Versatile Product Solutions
PolyVolve™ technology is designed to suit production for any polyethylene terephthalate application. Our process's shortest residence time produces leading product quality (color, AA, MDO) suitable for any regional market around the globe.
No matter the product application, Chemtex can supply custom tailored solutions for each Client's goals, ensuring optimum capital & operating efficiency.
PET Resin
- Water Bottles
- CSD
- Refillables
- Hot Fill
Polyester Fiber
- Apparel
- Furnishing
- Industrial Textiles
- Medical
Film Grade
- Food Trays
- Lid Film
- Insulation
- Solar
Industrial Resin
- Automotive
- Electrical
- Medical
- Construction
Concept-to-Commissioning Project Support
Project Development & Consultation
Conceptual Design & Feasibility Studies
State-of-the-Art Technologies
Basic & Detailed Design
Global Equipment Sourcing
Project Structure Assistance
Construction Support
Commissioning & Process Optimization
