"Capacity Expansion Plans Amid Increasingly Expensive Feedstock - Challenges for Asian PET Suppliers"

Global renewed optimism in PET is back ! PET production capacities are ramping up with new plants announced and demand is strong in Asia. It is projected that global demand of PET - resin, fibres & filaments will grow at 6-7% this year.

In PTA, BP announced earlier this year, that that its 2nd PTA plant in Zhuhai China will have its capacity raised to 1.7 million/m.t/year and is planning another 3rd plant with a capacity of 1.25 million/m.t/year.

On PX and MEG , speculation on these high feedstocks prices have led to great uncertainty among buyers.

What uniform price of PET feedstocks can the industry expect ?

While PET capacities are ramping up, the availability of R-PET remains tight and is expected to remain limited even while interest in green initiatives grow. How are RPET collection rates in Asia ? Is there enough RPET to go around ?

There has been ongoing legislative change in the Chinese recycled plastics market and strict certifications for RPET producers, how will this impact RPET developments ?

New comer ASPET has ventured into PET resin manufacturing with plans for a new 210,000-TPA PET resin in West Bengal and also a 420,000-TPA PET resin plant in Egypt. What are the status of these plants ?

With tough competition, resin producers are investing in R & D to create innovative co-polymers that have niche markets - ie for high pressure applications like beer/CSD or homopolymers for hot fill applications etc. Hear from Indorama Polymers and ASPET on their new packaging resins and the potential applications.

On biobased developments, recently we heard that Etylene Glycol can now be 100% biobased as claimed by Pepsi with their Green Bottle, but the PTA part is still petrochemical-based.

Developments are going on with innovative companies proving that PTA can be produced using a thermochemical route such as biomass-to-syngas . One such company, Anellotech is at a development stage with their unique multi-product, feedstock flexible , low cost technology that can produce Green BTX ( benzene, toluene and xylene ) with the xylene going into the PET chain.

How much can Anellotech's new Biomass to Aromatics technology replace the PET feedstock equation ?

New developments from PET barrier, specialty resins, renewable feedstocks to PET converters on their integration to use R PET are some of the issues that will be addressed at this CMT's PET Outlook 2012 annual event.

An impressive panel of PET industry speakers will share with you some of the key highlights including

• The Changing Global Picture for PET and growth prospects in China & rest of Asia
• ASPET expansion plans and recent developments in barrier resins
• China's aggressive expansion and how much will it affect the global market
• PET markets outlook and integrating to R-PET - perspective from converters
• Homo-polymer for Hot-fill applications - recent developments from Indorama
• Green PET: Thermochemical Catalytic Process for Production of PX Directly from Non-Food Biomass

And many more...

Register your team now.

You Will Network With

PET Resin Producers/Suppliers,

Feedstock Suppliers (PX/PTA/ MEG), PolyesterManufacturers,

Traders, Converters,

Preform Producers, Designers,

Technology Providers including

machinery suppliers from blowing,

preform toinjection molding,

robotic systems etc,

recycling cos, bottlers/fillers,

brand owners, and convertors