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June 23, 2022
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Indorama Ventures collaborates with Filzfabrik Fulda and Strauss-Faser to achieve a fully circular, high performance acoustic insulation, demonstrated at Techtextil 2022

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Bangkok, Thailand – 16th June, 2022

The collaboration between Indorama Ventures (IVL), Filzfabrik Fulda and Strauss-Faser presents a complete cradle to cradle, polyester technical felt for use in acoustic insulation, across nonwoven fabric applications which will be showcased at the Techtextil exhibition in Frankfurt, 21st to 24th June 2022.

The successful industry partnership demonstrates the commitment to fully circular sustainability as established fiber producers IVL, nonwoven manufacturers Filzfabrik Fulda (developers of LANISOR) and fiber converters Strauss-Faser work together to achieve their common aim of creating cradle to cradle, technical applications. Using recycled fiber in nonwoven applications they are able to achieve the same or higher standard of products for their customers as seen in the specialist acoustic absorber LANISOR panels collaboration.

At Techtextil, IVL from their exhibition space at Hall 9.1, D05 will present the case study of the LANISOR acoustic absorber collaboration and demonstrate the fully circular material samples to outline the process where the acoustic felt material was future designed through innovative engineering to repurpose the post industrial waste as a resource, showing full circulatory throughout the production process to keep resources in circulation for longer. Working together with Strauss-Faser to achieve Filzfabrik Fulda’s aim of reducing carbon footprint and optimizing the use of resources within the LANISOR acoustic felt panels.

IVL Bobingen processed the initial fiber material for Strauss-Faser who converted the material with Filzfabrik Fulda and worked together for several trials to find a way of reusing 50 tons of post-industrial material from the end of the acoustic production process. Through these trials it was found that Filzfabrik Fulda’s post industrial discarded material could be remelted into granulated resin and returned to IVL’s Bobingen site to be extruded and spun into fibers for use again by Filzfabrik Fulda and Strauss-Faser for the acoustic felt panels. These combined efforts are

supporting customers to achieve fully circular targets and advance sustainability objectives within the nonwoven segment. Each company is actively pursuing full scale sustainability targets to attain market leadership in technical textiles which can be 100% recycled after use.

As a global leader in PET Recycling, IVL is reimagining chemistry to create a better world and is fully committed to innovating processes and materials to achieve a circular economy as demonstrated by its business practices and partnerships with industry to use collective expertise to advance all its business segments.

IVL is partnering with industry to meet increasingly challenging market demands with collaborative and innovative solutions for sustainable futures across the nonwovens, fibers and fabrics sector. Globally across all its territories and across its polymers range, IVL companies are working together with industry and with each other to achieve the best products and the best outcomes without compromising performance or the environment. Developments are featured at Techtextil 2022 and the IVL team welcomes the opportunity to explore how these developments can support customers’ sustainability goals.

Purposeful collaboration with industry and strengthening processes and products to to support customers to achieve circular objectives is central to the activities of IVL globally. Chris Kenneally, Executive President Fibers at IVL explains “As a global sustainable chemical company and integrated leader in PET, at IVL we are committed to developing and leading sustainable innovations through leveraging the deep expertise across our companies and our industry to create successful partnerships that will elevate knowledge and positive outcomes for all our partners and customers. Our One IVL approach is to continue to embed sustainability throughout all our territories, processes and products to support customers’ sustainability goals across all our verticals”.

About Indorama Ventures

Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited, listed in Thailand (Bloomberg ticker IVL.TB), is one of the world’s leading petrochemicals producers, with a global manufacturing footprint across Europe, Africa, Americas, and Asia Pacific. The company’s portfolio comprises Combined PET, Integrated Oxides and Derivatives, and Fibers. Indorama Ventures products serve major FMCG and automotive sectors, i.e., beverages, hygiene, personal care, tire and safety segments. Indorama Ventures has approx. 26,000 employees worldwide and consolidated revenue of USD $14.6 billion by end of 2021. The Company is listed in the Dow Jones Emerging Markets and World Sustainability Indices (DJSI).

Indorama Ventures is headquartered in Bangkok, Thailand with global operating sites in

www.indoramaventures.com

About Filzfabrik Fulda

Filzfabrik Fulda GmbH & Co KG has been an owner-managed company with production exclusively in Germany since it was founded in 1881. Its products; nonwovens, wool felts, calender and needle felts are as diverse as their areas of application. With innovation, expertise and commitment they develop individual solutions for their customers. Filzfabrik Fulda offers development, production, state-of-the-art finishing and making up of wool felts and non-woven fabrics. Its unique level of vertical integration has made Filzfabrik Fulda a supplier of customized system solutions for every use and application.

www.filzfabrik-fulda.de/gb

About Strauss-Faser

Founded in Germany in 1883 Strauss-Faser offers wholesale trading with man-made fibers for all types of textiles. Their 4,700m2 of warehouse space and modern office building are located on the company premises. In addition, the company leases three further warehouses with a storage capacity of approximately 10,000 m2. Strauss-Faser positions themselves as an intermediary between the customer’s requests or requirements and technical feasibility in terms of manufacturing. They are ambitious to find new technical solutions with customers and promote them exclusively. Strauss-Faser currently processes 15,000+ tons of fiber annually, with over 105 satisfied customers.

www.strauss-faser.de/en/

See IVL at Techtextil 2022 at Hall 9.1, D05

For further information contact:

Stuart Kelly Global

Head of Corporate Communications Indorama Ventures PCL, Thailand

Email: stuart.k@indorama.net

Telephone: +66 2 661 6661 ext. 508

___________________

Celene Dolan

Vice President Fibers Marketing Indorama Hygiene Group

Email: cdolan@wellman-intl.com

Telephone:+ 353 87 2515814

June 23, 2022
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Indorama Ventures presents a united portfolio of innovative, sustainable materials and technologies across its fiber, nonwoven and fabric verticals at Techtextil in Frankfurt from 21st to 24th June 2022

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Bangkok, Thailand – 21st June, 2022

The Mobility, Hygiene and LifeStyle fiber segments of Indorama Ventures (IVL) will present together under One IVL brand for the first time at Techtextil in Frankfurt, 21st – 24th June to demonstrate a comprehensive range of innovative recycled and biodegradable solutions across nonwoven, fiber and fabric applications.

The three verticals in the IVL fiber division Mobility, Hygiene and LifeStyle will be formally presented together for the first time under One IVL brand at Techtextil 2022. The unification of IVL’s fiber technologies, processes, brands and global reach across the Mobility, Hygiene and LifeStyle; the vertical business offerings that make up the fibers segment of IVL, clarifies and strengthens IVL’s global position to meet increasingly challenging market demands. The consolidation of IVL Mobility, IVL Hygiene and IVL LifeStyle demonstrates IVL’s continuous approach to collaboratively developing sustainable solutions, innovating together to achieve its circular objectives and enabling customers across all its verticals to deliver on their own commitments to sustainability.

As a global leader in PET Recycling, IVL is reimagining chemistry to create a better world and is fully committed to innovating processes and materials to achieve a circular economy as demonstrated by its business practices and partnerships with industry to use collective expertise to advance all its business segments.

With a strong heritage in pioneering sustainable technologies, IVL Hygiene are optimizing Group materials and technologies and applying this expertise across specialist areas such as insulation for both thermal and acoustic applications and offering multi polymer solutions with enhanced functionality. Similarly for filtration media, the breadth of polymer and technologies which IVL Hygiene can support, is driving innovation across both air and liquid filtration applications.

IVL is on a continuous journey of innovation towards a circular economy, it will showcase its breadth of sustainability offerings at Techtextil 2022 including its end of material use options including Biotransformation Technology, CiCLO®, PLA as well as its circular options to include:

Deja™, made with polyester yarns produced out of used, rPET material, not only bottle flake but broader rPET Streams, made possible through recent IVL investment in state of the art recycling technologies, further strengthening IVL’s ability to support customer sustainability and circular economy objectives. It offers multiple solutions for environment friendly approaches and products. DejaTM is differentiated in the market by its performance-led suite of sustainable solutions that helps customers to achieve their sustainability targets, while also responding to end-consumers’ demand for transparency and environmental responsibility.

CiCLO®, a textile technology which allows polyester and other synthetic materials to biodegrade like natural materials do in wastewater treatment plant sludge, sea water and landfill conditions. Reducing synthetic microfiber pollution generated during washing and minimizing plastic accumulation in landfills caused by discarded textiles.

IVL is partnering with industry to meet market demands with collaborative and innovative solutions for sustainable futures across the fibers, nonwovens and fabrics sector. Globally across all its territories and across its polymers range, IVL companies are working together with industry and with each other to achieve the best products and the best outcomes without compromising performance or the environment. Developments are featured at Techtextil 2022 and the IVL team welcomes the opportunity to explore how these developments can support customers’ sustainability goals.

Indorama Mobility Group has accrued decades of industry knowledge and experience as well as the strong brand equity of each company accumulated over the years in the technical yarn and fabrics for Automotive, Tire and Industrial sectors. This vertical targets end-use markets such as tire reinforcement, airbags, seatbelts, mechanical rubber goods, sewing threads, fabrics, ropes and cordage and composites wherein it has built strong market positions over the years. Indorama Mobility Group now has a unique portfolio of yarns, single-end cords and fabrics based on polyester, polyamide, rayon and aramid hybrid as well as the innovative product pipelines from on-going R&D programs. At Techtextil Indorama Mobility Group will demonstrate the latest product developments based on innovations like Breathair®; a lightweight, highly water repellent and recyclable 3D structure and Enka® TecTape Hybrid Roving for the automated production of continuous fiber reinforced composites with thermoplastic matrix.

IVL Hygiene exemplifies the capabilities that customers, consumers, and governments have come to rely on. From comfortable inner linings to filter media for face masks, from breathable barrier materials to medical gowns for surgery rooms. A ‘Forward Innovative Thinking’ (FIT) component strategy has been developed to give product designers the ability to intermix functions and capabilities to generate consumer products that improve the quality of life.

IVL LifeStyle represents the business of numerous Indorama Ventures Limited sister companies. Formed in 2020, Indorama LifeStyle comprises 13 production sites in 9 countries. From polycondensation, through to chips production, spinning, texturing, yarn dyeing, beaming, and twisting. Offering both staple fibers and filament yarns, the polyester production of Indorama LifeStyle is fully integrated, with all production steps taking place

in-house, which enables Indorama LifeStyle to offer solution driven and customized products for apparel, automotive interior textiles, as well as for contract, home and industrial textile solutions and apparel throughout the world. Indorama LifeStyle will showcase some product displays and exhibits which will highlight its consumers brands CoolVisions® a lightweight, functional and also dyeable polypropylene; NewLife™ a functional and sustainable filament yarn with added values for manifold applications areas from automotive, apparel to home and technical textiles as well as PLA yarns made from 100% renewable raw materials.

The development and evolution of sustainable technologies is central to activity across IVL which it has distilled into four key pillars:

Recycled Materials: IVL is recycling more to impact less. As pioneers of innovation in recycling for over 50 years, IVL’s evolving technologies have enabled them to recycle what others can’t. Their optimisation of material performance and sustainability through next generation recycling is helping to close the loop for circularity.

At the IVL exhibition space in the Techtextil Show, examples of Closed Loop customer collaborations will be showcased which include:

Biomaterials: Through collaborating with cutting edge industrial partners and academia, IVL are global leaders in the development of Biotransformation technologies such as bio-based PA 4.10, natural viscose filament yarns, CiCLO® and PLA.

Future Designed: IVL continues to future-proof products with material optimisation and base weight solutions across multiple applications to reduce carbon emissions and offer carbon replacement. Ensuring that products start with a better design for a better future.

Lower Carbon: IVL drives industry standards for mass balance sustainable materials and reduces carbon footprint with two IVL Hygiene sites having achieved ISCC Plus Certifications. Also through the provision of Breathair®, a lightweight and recyclable, 3D structure. Higher standards mean a lower carbon footprint.

IVL looks forward to collaborative discussions at Techtextil on how its offerings across its verticals can help support and develop customers’ sustainability objectives and targets.

IVL is committed to developing and leading the transition to a circular economy.
Chris Kenneally, Executive President Fibers at IVL explains “We are united across our portfolio as we continue to strengthen our Mobility, Hygiene and LifeStyle verticals designed to inherently add value as we accelerate our journey towards sustainability to meet the demands for a fully circular economy. At IVL we are focused on driving innovation and collaboration across our verticals, within our company and as part of our industry to meet the challenges and share the opportunities that a circular economy presents for us all.”

About Indorama Ventures

Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited, listed in Thailand (Bloomberg ticker IVL.TB), is one of the world’s leading petrochemicals producers, with a global manufacturing footprint across Europe, Africa, Americas, and Asia Pacific. The

company’s portfolio comprises Combined PET, Integrated Oxides and Derivatives, and Fibers. Indorama Ventures products serve major FMCG and automotive sectors, i.e., beverages, hygiene, personal care, tire and safety segments. Indorama Ventures has approx. 26,000 employees worldwide and consolidated revenue of USD $14.6 billion by end of 2021. The Company is listed in the Dow Jones Emerging Markets and World Sustainability Indices (DJSI).

Indorama Ventures is headquartered in Bangkok, Thailand with global operating sites in

www.indoramaventures.com

See IVL at Techtextil 2022 at Hall 9.1, D05

For further information contact:

Stuart Kelly Global

Head of Corporate Communications Indorama Ventures PCL, Thailand

Email: stuart.k@indorama.net

Telephone: +66 2 661 6661 ext. 508

___________________

Celene Dolan

Vice President Fibers Marketing Indorama Hygiene Group

Email: cdolan@wellman-intl.com

Telephone:+ 353 87 2515814

June 21, 2022
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Indorama Ventures works with Auping and TWE Group to deliver a fully circular initiative by closing the loop in mattress design, manufacturing and recycling, demonstrated at Techtextil 2022

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Bangkok, Thailand – 21st June, 2022

 

The sustainable collaboration and innovation between Indorama Ventures (IVL), Auping and TWE Group presents a certified cradle to cradle process for mattress components across nonwoven applications, at Techtextil, Frankfurt, 21st to 24th June 2022

 

Using circular research and design, the industry partnership between IVL Mullagh (Ireland), Auping and TWE Group has resulted in a perpetual, sustainable economic business model, for manufacturers globally. The inclusion of safe raw materials within mattress manufacturing allows the materials to be easily disassembled at the product’s end of use in order to be further reused as same components or recycled into new raw material at the same quality level, to enable versatile textile applications.

Designed for disassembly to optimize the use of existing resources, reduce carbon footprint and support customer objectives all along their customers’ supply chain. This circular industry collaboration begins with design, where the mattress is constructed using only two different base materials, 100% PET polyester textiles and steel wire pocket springs connected with Niaga®️, a non toxic reversible adhesive, making the mattress easy to disassemble and recover.

IVL, Auping and TWE’s shared vision for a better world is demonstrated through their connected and innovative circularity that helps to close the loop. Auping collects, sorts and separates the collected fabrics, which then go to IVL Mullagh for processing, melting and extrusion to form polyester staple fiber. These staple fibers are then converted by TWE Group into nonwovens for use in Auping’s Evolve mattress, the world’s first fully circular mattress. Following the end of mattress use, the material recovery process simply starts again.

Auping estimates that annually more than 40 million mattresses are disposed of in Europe alone, the majority of which are incinerated. Their take back system in the Netherlands ensures that when their new mattress is delivered, the old mattress is retrieved and recycled, irrespective of the brand, ensuring existing materials are continually optimized, diverted from landfill and kept in use to achieve a circular economy.

At Techtextil, IVL will demonstrate this closed loop case study from their exhibition space at Hall 9.1, D05 to showcase their partnership with Auping and TWE Group where a shared sustainable vision, industry ingenuity and circular cooperation can be seen in action.

For over 50 years IVL Mullagh has been recycling more to impact less. Their evolving technology has enabled them to recycle what others can’t. Partnering with key stakeholders to eliminate waste, and design recyclability and efficiencies into products and packaging, together they seek the most sustainable solutions to help all to achieve their sustainability targets.

As a global leader in PET Recycling, IVL is reimagining chemistry to create a better world and is fully committed to innovating processes and materials to achieve a circular economy as demonstrated by its business practices and partnerships with industry to use collective expertise to advance all its business segments.

IVL is partnering with industry to meet increasingly challenging market demands with collaborative and innovative solutions for sustainable futures across the nonwovens, fibers and fabrics sector. Globally across all its territories and across its polymers range, IVL companies are working together with industry and with each other to achieve the best products and the best outcomes without compromising performance or the environment. Developments are featured at Techtextil 2022 and the IVL team welcomes the opportunity to explore how these developments can support customers’ sustainability goals.

At IVL the focus is always on the future. Chris Kenneally, Executive President Fibers at IVL explains: “We measure ourselves by our customers’ success.Through expert collaboration, unparalleled innovation and attention to quality we aim to exceed their expectations. Our strategy to strengthening our collaborations are aligned with our long-term sustainability objectives and we can further our commitment to increase recycled content as we advance circularity together in the sector.”

Geert Doorlag, Researcher on sustainability, sleep and ergonomics at Auping said: “The transformation from a linear to a circular production requires patience and dedication, but also a strong drive to make a difference. Partnerships are very important to us. We strongly believe in the importance of sharing knowledge and trying to translate insights – like in the field of sustainability – into relevant solutions, in cooperation with other parties”.

About Indorama Ventures

Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited, listed in Thailand (Bloomberg ticker IVL.TB), is one of the world’s leading petrochemicals producers, with a global manufacturing footprint across Europe, Africa, Americas, and Asia Pacific. The company’s portfolio comprises Combined PET, Integrated Oxides and Derivatives, and Fibers. Indorama Ventures products serve major FMCG and automotive sectors, i.e., beverages, hygiene, personal care, tire and safety segments. Indorama Ventures has approx. 26,000 employees worldwide and consolidated revenue of USD $14.6 billion by end of 2021. The Company is listed in the Dow Jones Emerging Markets and World Sustainability Indices (DJSI).

Indorama Ventures is headquartered in Bangkok, Thailand with global operating sites in

www.indoramaventures.com

See IVL at Techtextil 2022 at Hall 9.1, D05

For further information contact:

Stuart Kelly Global

Head of Corporate Communications Indorama Ventures PCL, Thailand

Email: stuart.k@indorama.net

Telephone: +66 2 661 6661 ext. 508

___________________

Celene Dolan

Vice President Fibers Marketing Indorama Hygiene Group

Email: cdolan@wellman-intl.com

Telephone:+ 353 87 2515814

April 27, 2021
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Introduction of
Deja™ Carbon Neutral PET

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Indorama Ventures Expands its Deja™ Sustainable Brand Platform with introduction of Deja™ Carbon Neutral PET

 

Indorama Ventures PCL (IVL), the world-class chemicals and recycling company, is expanding its portfolio of sustainable solutions under its Deja™ brand. The global sustainable ingredients brand is a key part the company’s commitment to meet growing demand for innovative, high performance products which will reduce impact on the environment.

 

Deja™ Carbon Neutral PET pellet is the latest innovation under IVL’s Deja™ global brand offering as the world’s first certified carbon neutral PET pellet solution. It is a significant addition to the growing Deja™ portfolio, which includes sustainable PET, rPET, polymer and fiber range of products available across flake, pellet, fiber and filament ingredients. Deja™Carbon Neutral PET pellet has been sustainably produced throughout its supply chain and helps environmentally conscious companies to achieve their sustainability targets by lowering their Scope 3 GHG emissions.

 

Through its Deja™ global, sustainable ingredient brand, IVL is differentiating itself in the marketplace by offering a performance-led suite of sustainable solutions that helps its customers to achieve their sustainability targets, while also responding to end consumers’ demand for transparency and environmental responsibility. IVL’s unique access to recycling sources through its own global supply chain ecosystem means it can power sustainability and support customers that are aiming to close the loop.

 

The Deja™ brand platform is inspired by IVL’s vision to be a world-class chemical company making great products for society, underscored by an ambitious target of achieving 25 percent renewable electricity of total power consumption by 2030. To achieve this, IVL has pledged USD 1.5 billion towards meeting its sustainability targets. Deja™ fiber and polymer products offer high performance and versatility, with a lower carbon footprint. They can be applied to a wide range of applications across the Hygiene, Lifestyle, Automotive and Packaging sectors, while meeting the exacting standards demanded by these specialist sectors.

 

Deja™Carbon Neutral is a PET proposition with neutralized raw material emissions, from cradle to IVL’s plant gates. It comes with an independently verified carbon neutral certification of compliance from globally established providers. Through a partnership with South Pole, a leading project developer and provider of global climate solutions, IVL offsets unavoidable carbon emissions through projects that help transform lives and protect the environment.

 

  1. K. Agarwal, CEO of Indorama Ventures, said:

 

“We are pleased to continually grow the DEJA™ low carbon performance PET, rPET and polymer brand platform. Working throughout the supply chain, Deja™ offers sustainability by giving converters credibility, retailers accreditation, and end consumers the assurance of transparency and high performance as standard. Deja™ demands more from our PET and less from the environment by recycling and transforming PET into extraordinary, sustainable products across multiple applications that perform as they protect the future.”

 

Yashovardhan Lohia, Chief Sustainability Officer at Indorama Ventures, said:

 

“IVL is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of PET resin so it is important that we demonstrate sustainability leadership. By supporting the development of recycling infrastructure, and investing in advanced recycling and sustainable technologies, we close the loop, delivering a circular economy and reducing carbon emissions. Our Deja™ brand offers customers a superior choice of flake, pellet, fiber and filament options that have sustainability built into the supply chain. We are responsible to our customers and to the environment by offering the best options without compromise. We do this by respecting and recognizing the value of PET, rPET and other sustainable polymer solutions, as a viable resource for business and the environment. The Deja™ brand platform will enable conscientious customers to differentiate and to add value along the supply chain. This gives consumers the confidence they need to select superior and purposeful products that enable sustainable business and environmental protection”.

 

Deja™, take a different view at: deja.indoramaventures.com

 

About Indorama Ventures

                            

Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited, listed in Thailand (Bloomberg ticker IVL.TB), is one of the world’s leading petrochemicals producers, with a global manufacturing footprint across Europe, Africa, Americas, and Asia Pacific. The company’s portfolio comprises Combined PET, Integrated Oxides and Derivatives, and Fibers. Indorama Ventures products serve major FMCG and automotive sectors, i.e. beverages, hygiene, personal care, tire and safety segments. Indorama Ventures has approx. 24,000 employees worldwide and consolidated revenue of US$10.6 billion in 2020. The Company is listed in the Dow Jones Emerging Markets and World Sustainability Indices (DJSI).

 

Indorama Ventures is headquartered in Bangkok, Thailand with global operating sites in

 

EMEA: The Netherlands, Germany, Ireland, France, UK, Italy, Denmark, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Luxembourg, Spain, Turkey, Nigeria, Ghana, Portugal, Israel, Egypt, Russia, Slovakia, Austria, Bulgaria
Americas: USA, Mexico, Canada, Brazil
Asia Pacific: Thailand, Indonesia, China, India, the Philippines, Myanmar, Australia

 

 

Contacts

 

Stuart Kelly

Tel: +66 2 661 6661 ext. 508

stuart.k@indorama.net

 

Naweensuda Krabuanrat

Tel: +662.661.6661 ext. 247

naweensuda.k@indorama.net

March 25, 2021
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Taking care of our customers

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Our People – taking care of our customers

Our most valuable asset is without doubt, our people. The pride, dedication and commitment shown to our customers is evident in the quality of product and service delivered to the customer, from our production technicians to our sales team – which has been the backbone of the Wellman success story for nearly fifty years.

Quality at Wellman

At Wellman International, underpinning all of our activity is the pre-requisite of delivering the highest quality standard product possible to the customer. All of our efforts are centred on optimising raw material, systems, processes, packaging, quality control and logistics to ensure that the absolute best product is produced, consistently, for our valued customers. We understand how critical it is for our customers’ process of delivering dependable quality product and take this responsibility very seriously.

Health and Safety

The importance of the wellbeing and safety of Wellman employees cannot be over emphasised, and the company and management places an extremely high priority on that being the case. All procedures and systems are followed thoroughly to ensure that the welfare of employees is at the forefront of activity at all times. Wellman places a high value on all of its employees and recognises that the success of a company rests with its people and endeavours to ensure that everyone is working in a safe, secure and happy environment.