The Performance Fibers of today has emerged from a long history of company structural and capability development that has enabled itself to continue to grow and excel through different market conditions.

Performance Fibers business is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Indorama Ventures Company which is the world’s largest PET producer. Performance Fibers’ Asia business was acquired by Indorama Ventures on 1st April 2015 as part of latter’s growing high-value added business portfolio. Before that, Performance Fibers was owned by Sun Capital Partners, Inc who acquired the business from Honeywell International in 2004.

Performance Fibers continues a legacy of commitment, reliability and innovation that traces its roots to the post-World War II years when the fibers business was begun by Allied Chemical (subsequently AlliedSignal and Honeywell).

Performance Fibers’ management team comprises an Asia-based team of business and functional leaders averaging 25 years of experiences. The team, combining a mix of rich fiber industry and international experience as well as functional skills gained from multi-national companies, is committed to delivering superior value to customers and stakeholders. Our leadership team includes the President, CFO, site GM, HR Director, Marketing Director, Sales Director, Technology Director, and Product Management Director. They are based out of Hong Kong, Kaiping China and Malaysia.

Performance Fibers is headquartered in Hong Kong with sales offices in Malaysia, Delhi and Shanghai.

Performance Fibers’ production site is located in Kaiping, Guangdong, China employing over 1000 workers. The production facilities have installed the state-of-the-art equipment with fiber spinning, fabrication and surface treatment capability. The site is also home to the 6,000 square foot Technology Center which enables the Performance Fibers technology team to locally pilot and validate solutions for existing and new applications

1. Hong Kong (Headquarters)
2. Kaiping, China (Manufacturing and Technology Center)
3. Kuala Lumpur (Main Sales Office)
4. Shanghai, China (Sales Office)
5. Delhi, India (Sales Office)

Performance Fibers has a portfolio of product performance that derives from different yarn types such as polyester, Nylon 66 and aramid and from different product forms including tire cord fabrics, twisted cord, high tenacity fully drawn yarn (FDY), canvas and dipped single end cord (SEC).

Performance Fibers is able to deliver this wide range of fiber and fabric performance because it has formed strategic alliances with major producers of aramid and N66 in addition to having own core strengths in Polyester fiber and fabric producers. Performance Fibers is the pioneer in DSP® dimensionally stable polyester and have over the years been a high quality and consistent supplier of DSP® yarn and twisted cord, tire cord fabrics, canvas, and SEC to tire, MRG and industrial markets.

Performance Fibers has been in past few years engaged in product innovations for addressing the evolving requirements in the tire reinforcement market. Tire cord fabric new performance includes high thermal adhesion THERMTEC™ to reduce risk of heat-generated failure, extra-high dimensional stability UNITEC™ for enhanced handling, extra-high tenacity ECOTEC™ for carcass weight reduction and specialty material of unique properties PLYTEC™ and CAPTEC™ for nylon replacement and lowered total cost of ownership in carcass and cap ply applications respectively.

Markets We Serve

Performance Fibers have targeted Tire, MRG, auto-safety, sewing thread and selected industrial markets for growth, supplying a range of performance products to satisfy the high standard of customers’ industries.

Performance Fibers seeks to build longer term customer relationship and partnership in the chosen markets, constantly monitoring the evolving market requirement and investing in R&D efforts to develop product offerings that add value to customers’ products and processes.

INDORAMA VENTURES ANNOUNCES FORMATION OF NEW MOBILITY BUSINESS GROUP AT TECHTEXTIL FRANKFURT, 2019

Indorama Ventures combines its global industrial filaments businesses to form the Indorama Mobility Group in order to offer essential solutions to the Tire, Automotive Safety and Functional Materials sectors.

BANKGKOK, THAILAND – 16 May 2019 – Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL) today announced the formation of a new business unit within the IVL Fibers division named the Indorama Mobility Group, which will comprise three business segments, namely Tire, Automotive Safety and Functional Materials.

The formation of the Indorama Mobility Group is the culmination of successive strategic acquisitions over the past five years: PHP Fibers, Performance Fibers, Trevira Filaments, Glanzstoff, Kordarna and UTT. The Group collectively owns decades of industry knowledge, experience and brand equity and this creates a unique portfolio of fiber, yarn, single-end cord and fabric based on polyester, polyamide, rayon, aramid hybrid and PEN, emerging as an integrated global business unit.

The Indorama Mobility Group's target markets are tire reinforcement, airbags, seatbelts, mechanical rubber goods, sewing threads, fabrics, ropes and cordage, automotive interior, home textiles and composites wherein it has built strong positions over the years, notably in the automotive sector. This intra-group businesses merger creates a truly global presence and accelerates business growth through cross proliferation of product lines, expanded customer partnership and a global manufacturing footprint.

The Indorama Mobility Group today has a sales revenue in excess of $1billion with 16 manufacturing sites in nine countries employing over 6,000 people.

Headed by Mr. Jochen Boos, Chief Executive Officer of the newly-formed Indorama Mobility Group (formerly CEO of PHP Fibers), the new unit will pursue a growth path that is intertwined with the exciting development of the Mobility industry.

"Today's suppliers have to adapt to the strong and disruptive trends that are already approaching like e-mobility, autonomous driving, shared mobility and smart vehicles which are creating new opportunities for fibers and textiles", said Mr. Boos.

Spearheading the global Commercial and Operations is Mr. Arnaud Closson, Chief Operating Officer, Indorama Mobility Group (formerly CEO of Glanzstoff) who remarked, "the newly created Indorama Mobility Group, supported by its long-standing legacy brands, will integrate all of its assets and unify its go-to-market strategy. We aim to leverage our global operational footprint and tailor our product portfolio to deliver even better customer value."

The structure of the Indorama Mobility Group is aligned to provide functional leadership, driving market focus through the dedicated commercial organization of the three business segments, accelerating technology and product innovations through centralized R&D and benchmarking best practices across sites to deliver a new level of manufacturing excellence. Supporting these new initiatives is a geographically and culturally diversified workforce located worldwide.

On sustainability, the Group is committed to have a positive impact on customers and on society, contributing to Indorama Ventures' mission to be a responsible industry leader that creates value for our business and society.

Moving forward as a new business, while there is a continuation of activities conducted under the legacy companies, the Indorama Mobility Group is the business partner and the brand to be reckoned with.

"Empowering safety and performance" – fibers and textiles that move the world.

If you would like to contact us for our products and services, please reach out to one of the following locations or email us at enquiry@performancefibers.com