PETpla.net Insider 12 / 2010

NEWS 9 PET planet insider Vol. 11 No. 12/10 www.petpla.net Strong fresh air for PET-bottle industry Gain new heights in savings and energy-efficiency with the new oil-free ZD compressor Time to gain new heights. The highly energy efficient ZD compressor, with superior screw and booster technology, offers Class Zero quality air and is extremely silent with no vibrations. The air-cooled ZD provides you an exceptional reliability , no water consumption, while driving down investment and installation cost. It all adds up to sustainable productivity for today’s challenging low carbon economy. This new ZD is The answer for all your high pressure 40 bar applications. For more information, visit www.atlascopco.com/petcompressors Eastman to sell per- formance polymers PET business to DAK Americas Eastman Chemical Company (NYSE:EMN) has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with DAK Americas, LLC, to sell the PET business and related assets and technology of its Performance Polymers segment. The sale is expected to complete during Q4 2010. The sale is expected to realise $600million, subject to the finally-agreed purchase price. A statement issued in the name of Jim Rogers, Eastman president and CEO, said that the company intended to focus on its core businesses. New PET MTR plant for Indorama AlphaPet Uhde Inventa-Fischer has announced that it success- fully commissioned a second PET Resin plant in Alabama, USA, for Indorama AlphaPet, Inc. The new facility, located in Decatur, Alabama, USA, has an annual of 432,000t and came on-stream in June 2010. It is the largest plant to use Uhde Inventa-Fischer’s patented MTR technology anywhere in the world. Various grades of resin, for water and CSD bottling applications or for packaging film, may be produced at the same time. PTA is sourced from the adjacent BP facility via a direct pipeline. The MTR process is based on Uhde Inventa-Fischer’s proprietary 2 Reac- tor technology, which uses patented Espree and Discage reactors to obtain the desired high melt viscosities. The 2R-MTR process is claimed to reduce energy costs, through the elimination of the SSP process. In the next step, the plant will be upgraded with a flakes recycle system to further reduce the CO 2 foot- print. Uhde Inventa-Fischer’s scope of supply and services included the license, the basic and detail engineering, supply of all equipment and supervi- sion of the erection and com- missioning activities. www.uhde-inventa-fisch er.com New Nissei machine at PET-Power Dutch company PET-Power has acquired its first Nissei DP150 machine, which was installed in its Etten-Leur plant and began operating in May 2010. PET-Power already has two Nissei and two Aoki machines in operation but the new investment will enable it to handle larger products, up to 20l. It will also be able to meet what it says is a growing demand for wide-mouth jars; cream products in cosmetics; and large jars for sport and animal nutrition applications. The company says the range of its equipment will enable it to react quickly to changing market circumstances and unpredictable events, with all sorts of sizes, colours and styles, and across a wide range of production runs. www.petpower.nl