Bookmark 12-17-2013

Uhde Inventa-Fischer Completes PET Plant for Octal

MTR plant at Octal Petrochemicals in Salalah, Sultanate of Oman (figure: Uhde Inventa-Fischer)

The plant engineering and construction company Uhde Inventa-Fischer and Octal Petrochemicals, the largest PET resin manufacturer in the Middle East and the largest integrated PET sheet manufacturer in the world, successfully commissioned a polycondensation plant for the production of PET for bottle and packaging applications. The two production lines are located at the customer`s company headquarters in the city of Salalah, Sultanate of Oman and have an annual capacity of 550,000 tonnes.

Based on Uhde Inventa-Fischer's state-of-the-art, energy-efficient, patented Melt-To-Resin (MTR) technology, the plant enables Octal Petrochemicals to produce top-quality PET resin for the local and global market. In combination with the plant built by Uhde Inventa-Fischer at the same site in 2009, Octal Petrochemicals now has one of the world’s biggest single-site production capacities of 1,000,000 tonnes per year, and the highest accumulation of MTR technology.