thyssenkrupp’s plant engineering business has won a second order from the Turkish packaging producer KÖKSAN for a new PET production plant. The plant will be built in Gaziantep, Turkey. Its construction will double the site’s production capacity to 432,000 tons of PET resin per year. Completion and commissioning are planned for 2022.
The plant will use the Melt-To-Resin (MTR®) process patented by thyssenkrupp’s subsidiary Uhde Inventa Fischer to produce various grades of resin. With this investment, KÖKSAN intends to strengthen its market position both nationally and in the region.
thyssenkrupp’s scope of supplies and services includes the license, basic and detail engineering, supply of all major plant equipment and supervision of the erection and commissioning activities. Furthermore, the operating personnel of KÖKSAN is going to be trained by the specialists from thyssenkrupp.
The MTR process developed by thyssenkrupp is a continuous polycondensation process that obviates the need for the solid-state-post-condensation process steps in the production of PET resin. This leads to substantial energy savings, reduced investment, operating and maintenance costs, and a higher raw material yield.
