Integrated PET Plant Due Onstream in 2025
Corpus Christi Polymers Plant to produce 2.4 billion lb/yr of PET and another 2.8 billion lb/yr of PET precursor purified terephthalic acid.
Construction has been resumed in Corpus Christi, Tex. on what’s been dubbed the plastics “jumbo” project. Initiated by the now-bankrupt Italian company Mossi & Ghisolfi Group 10 years ago, the plant is currently owned by Corpus Christi Polymers (CCP) and, when completed, will produce 2.4 billion lb/yr of PET and another 2.8 billion lb/yr of PET precursor purified terephthalic acid (PTA). This will reportedly make it the largest vertically integrated PET/PTA facility in the world.
CCP bought the plant in February 2019 and initially said it would would begin construction later that year, with a target start-up date of May 2020. However delays in the project and the onset of the pandemic put those plans on hold.
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CCP is a partnership of Indorama Ventures PCL (subsidiary of Indorama Ventures Corpus Christi Holdings LLC); Alpek SAB de CV (subsidiary of DAK Americas LLC); and Far Eastern New Century (subsidiary of APG Polytech USA Holdings).
The plant is expected to generate up to 2400 jobs at peak construction.
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