Indorama’s feedstock business is aligned with their focus on vertical integration, one of the core strategies at Indorama Ventures that differentiates them from other players in the industry.

They integrated backward to produce the upstream materials for the production of PET and Polyester. The advantage of having an internal supply of raw materials is that they can maintain both their efficiency and cost philosophy.

A significant proportion of their feedstock requirements for their downstream PET and polyester production facilities are sourced internally.

Indorama’s downstream chain encompasses Paraxylene (PX), Purified Terephthalic Acid (PTA), Purified Isophthalic Acid (IPA), Naphthalene Dicarboxylate (NDC), Monoethylene Glycol (MEG), and Ethylene Oxide (EO) derivatives and by-products.

Indorama’s Resin business is a part of their Core polyester value chain which is supported by basic in house production of basic raw material like pure terephthalic acid (PTA) and monoethylene glycol (MEG).

In the Resin market, Indorama is considered a leading global manufacturer of PET and Yarn Resin. One in five bottles in the world is made from their resins.

Indorama offers PET in different grades to support a variety of customers’ requirements including hot-fill, high and low intrinsic viscosity, quick heat and general grade, to serve a variety of market applications such as beverage containers and food packaging, packaging of pharmaceutical and household products, and in industrial packaging applications.

As the world's largest producer of PET, Indorama established a recycling business to deal with the challenge of resource management and the need for sustainable packaging. They entered the recycling business in 2011, and provide the production facilities that transform post-consumer PET bottles into flakes, rPET resins and recycled polyester yarns.

They have carried out an integrated service through their recycling facilities in Asia, Europe and the United States, and have successfully reduced the use of resources in their production processes, thereby providing products which support the sustainability goals of their customers. Their recycling plants are now located in the Netherlands, France, Ireland, the US, Mexico and Thailand.

One in five PET bottles in the world is made from Indorama resins. They are the leading global manufacturer of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) with 19 PET production plants on four continents in 11 countries.

Their PET business is part of its core polyester value chain. The production and sale of PET are primarily used as a raw material in the manufacture of bottles, sheets, films, fibres, filaments and other speciality products.

The company offers PET in different grades to support a variety of their customer's requirements including hot-fill, high and low intrinsic viscosity, quick heat and general grade, to serve a variety of market applications such as beverage containers and food packaging, packaging of pharmaceutical and household products, and in industrial packaging applications.

From starting with Indorama's first polyester manufacturing site in Thailand, Indorama Ventures has become the country’s largest producer of polyester fibres. Group has further expanded its fibres business in Asia, Europe and the United States Recently, following the acquisition of Performance Fibres in China in 2015 and Glanzstoff Group, the largest tyre cord producer in Europe in 2017, indorama strengthened their presence in the automotive industry by supplying fabrics to leading automotive tyre companies.

From starting with Indorama's first polyester manufacturing site in Thailand, Indorama Ventures has become the country’s largest producer of polyester fibres. Group has further expanded its fibres business in Asia, Europe and the United States Recently, following the acquisition of Performance Fibres in China in 2015 and Glanzstoff Group, the largest tyre cord producer in Europe in 2017, indorama strengthened their presence in the automotive industry by supplying fabrics to leading automotive tyre companies.

As with other polymers, PET is derived from crude oil. The basic raw materials in PET, pure terephthalic acid (PTA) and monoethylene glycol (MEG), are chemically reacted with a small amount of co-monomers via a “polycondensation” process to form a base polymer. The resulting polymer is a polyester that is commonly used to make films and fibers. In the case of PET production, this base polymer undergoes solid stating which crystallizes the polymer to aid processability and toughens the product. The solid stating process also purifies the product by ensuring that all extractable products are removed. This material is then suitable to produce for packaging. However, before being placed on the market, the final PET package has to undergo various migration and extraction tests required by authorities to comply with stringent regulations on food contact materials ensuring their safe use for consumers.