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M&G plans US PET & Purified Terephthalic Acid plants

13 May '11
4 min read

M&G Group is a family owned chemical engineering and manufacturing group headquartered in Tortona, Italy.

M&G Group operates in the PET resin industry through its wholly-owned holding company Mossi & Ghisolfi International S.A. (M&G International).

Chemtex, the R&D and engineering arm of the M&G Group, has built the two largest PET plants in the world, both owned by M&G (Suape, Brazil, and Altamira, Mexico). Chemtex has wide EPC experience and has been involved in several PTA projects with different technologies. M&G has been operating a PTA plant at Paulinia, Brazil.

Chemtex, which employs over 1,000 engineers, has also developed a revolutionary technology for the production of simple and clean sugars from biomasses. A large industrial demonstration plant is being built in Italy (40 kt/year of ethanol, start-up Q2 2012).

Gruppo Mossi and Ghisolfi, The M&G Group

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