Polyplex (Thailand) Public Company Limited (PTL) was established in 2002 as a subsidiary of Polyplex Corporation Limited, India. Currently listed on the Thailand Stock Exchange, PTL focuses on the Asia Pacific markets and employs over 700 people in its manufacturing, sales and corporate operations. PTL also maintains liaison offices in Korea and Japan and has Sales representatives in all key markets to enhance market reach and service customers more effectively. 

As a group, Polyplex is the sixth largest global integrated manufacturer of Polyester (PET) film by capacity with manufacturing operations in five countries (India, Thailand, Turkey, USA and Indonesia) along with several warehouses in Europe and North America. PTL’s manufacturing facility in Siam Eastern Industrial Park is located in Rayong, close to the deep-sea port of Laem Chabang in the Gulf of Thailand.

PTL aims to be a total packaging substrate solution provider for its customers while developing products with minimal environmental impact and providing the highest standards of health and safety to the workforce. The company has been continuously involved in developing sustainable products and sustainable processes, endeavoring to contribute effectively towards global initiatives around sustainability and a circular economy. 

There have been growing concerns, in general, on the usage of single use plastics throughout the world. Flexible packaging is considered superior on various sustainability criteria vis-à-vis traditional packaging alternatives due to its inherent functional properties. The issue is of its recyclability, arising from lack of efficient and economic collection mechanism for post-consumer waste. 

In response to this challenge, in 2013, a recycling plant was set up under its subsidiary Ecoblue Limited with the intent to have dedicated focus on development of new sustainable products using higher recycled content. Ecoblue provides sustainable solutions for film-based process waste (post-industrial as well as post-consumer) and was PTL’s first step towards such Green Initiatives. A new state-of-the-art recycling facility is coming up in Ecoblue that would cater to high-end applications in PET Bottles and Polyester Filament Yarn, supporting brand owners to meet their sustainability targets. PTL also invested in chemical recycling process whereby post-consumer PET bottle waste is converted to food grade Resin which is used with varying concentration in PET films. Polyplex has products in portfolio which have up to 90% PCR content. With ongoing investment to expand chemical recycling capacities in Turkey and Thailand, Polyplex leads the way towards achieving true circularity for Packaging.