More manufacturing gone
Demolition taking place on the Indorama site at Siddick on 15 August 2016. In the early part of the century, this site was receiving 120 rail-bourne containers a week, delivered to the Port of Workington where they were moved to this site by road. The boxes carried Purified Terephthalic Acid (PTA) imported from Buna Werke in Germany via Rotterdam and Teesport to the Voridian Polymers site, then part of the Eastman Chemical empire. In 2008 the company became part of the Thai based Indorama group. They used PTA in the production of PET (polyethylene terephthalate) pellets, the raw product for the manufacture of soft drinks bottles and the like. The plant was constructed in 1967 originally producing Cellulose Acetate Filter Tow, used in filter tipped cigarettes. The PET plant was commissioned in 1988 and at its height produced 300 te of pellets a day. However, after 2010 production noticeably declined, until it was finally mothballed at the end of 2013.
More manufacturing gone
Demolition taking place on the Indorama site at Siddick on 15 August 2016. In the early part of the century, this site was receiving 120 rail-bourne containers a week, delivered to the Port of Workington where they were moved to this site by road. The boxes carried Purified Terephthalic Acid (PTA) imported from Buna Werke in Germany via Rotterdam and Teesport to the Voridian Polymers site, then part of the Eastman Chemical empire. In 2008 the company became part of the Thai based Indorama group. They used PTA in the production of PET (polyethylene terephthalate) pellets, the raw product for the manufacture of soft drinks bottles and the like. The plant was constructed in 1967 originally producing Cellulose Acetate Filter Tow, used in filter tipped cigarettes. The PET plant was commissioned in 1988 and at its height produced 300 te of pellets a day. However, after 2010 production noticeably declined, until it was finally mothballed at the end of 2013.