Voridian - PET - Eastman Chemical Company

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Continued Strong Growth: PET in Beverage Packaging
... traditional PET producers have left the market segment. Companies such as Höchst, Kodak Eastman, Shell and ICI have gradually withdrawn from this field over the past few years. New company groups, partnerships and joint ventures such as Invista, Voridian, Mossi & Ghisolfi and Equi Polymers, currently set the scene when it comes to PET raw materials, and the trend towards large-scale PET polycondensation plants is continuing. Scarcely any plants with a capacity of less than 100000t/year are bein...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, PET Bottles Success Story: Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET)
... bottle material was thus around EUR 1100/t in Western Europe in September 2004, while it had been EUR 1300/t two years earlier [source: KI]. The ten biggest PET producers cover around two-thirds of the global PET market. The market leaders include Voridian (Eastman), KoSa and Mossi & Ghisolfi with a share of 30% of global capacity overall. New, large-scale plants are planned over the years to come, especially in the Asian region (among others in India, China, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam), in ...

Kunststoffe international, 2007-10-21, Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET)
...de overcapacities, new plants are still going into operation in Eastern Europe, South America and above all in Asia. Currently, competitive plant size runs at a capacity of something over 100,000t/a [1, 2]. The world’s largest PET producers are Voridian (Eastman), Invista (KoSa) and Mossi & Ghisolfi. Together they account for about a third of all installed PET capacity worldwide. The regional capacity shares have noticeably shifted toward Asia and Eastern Europe in recent years. These regions a...