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October 2012

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Top Glove expanding its capacity to achieve goal of 30% global share by 2015

MALAYSIA-based Top Glove, a leading maker and supplier of rubber gloves is expanding its capacity through creating a total of 22 glove factories across the country to achieve its goal of partaking 30% of the global market share.

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MATERIALS NEWS

Octal ups its PET capacity
Octal

OCTAL has tripled its annual production capacity of PET resin with the commissioning of two of the world's largest vertical reactors in Salalah, Oman.

With a total output of over 1 million tonnes/year of PET, Octal says it is the world’s largest single site PET producer.

The company is now halfway through its investment plan with additional capacity scheduled for 2015 and 2016. When complete, the site will manufacture a total of 2.5 million tonnes/year both PET resin and its primary raw material, PTA. (PRA)