Case studies show IPP solving problems, driving better outcomes

Case Studies

IPP achieves quantifiable results for a variety of industry clients.

Read below how IPP has worked with organization all over the world to maximize profit, cut costs, and create efficient operations.

For customers who have learned the value of leveraging quality used equipment, we consistently save 50% of the capital cost of purchasing new, as well as provide an 85% reduction in lead time.

PET PLANT

IPP purchased a polyester fiber plant with a 550-million-pound capacity for PET bottle resin and 250-million-pound capacity for amorphous PET resin. This 760-acre site, with 1.1 million sq. ft. of covered manufacturing space and 100 acres inside fence, was an expenditure of $300,000/month for the owner. IPP took over the carrying costs, in addition to assuming the environmental obligations of the site.

In 2016, this plant was restarted as a fiber manufacturing facility to serve the specialty industrial and healthcare demand for high-quality polyester fiber. The project created at least 250 jobs and brought a new, low-cost cosmetic supplier of quality product to the market.

SYNTHETIC CHEMICAL

As part of a bankruptcy restructuring, IPP purchased a 400,000 sq. ft. synthetic photographic chemicals and engineering complex, employing 500 people (100 at time of shutdown). This was the first environmental liability transfer in the history of the UK, absolving the restructuring company from further responsibility and environmental cleanup.

With the synthetic photographic chemicals business dramatically different today due to digital photography, the Knowsley Industrial Park was created. The Park housed several tenants operating new and existing units, such as a solvent recovery, silver recovery and pilot plant. The site currently employs 250+ people with significant growth plans in the near future, bringing an additional 200 new jobs.

MIBK SOLVENT

IPP entered into an agreement to purchase and remove a solvents facility from a world-class Texas refinery complex consisting of a 208 million lbs./year M&H plant complex and underlying MIBC, MIBK, DAA and HG plants.

After several months of evaluation and feasibility studies, the M&H plant was sold and relocated to India, with IPP taking on the dismantling and shipping responsibilities. IPP and its contractors were subject to working under the site’s stringent environmental health and safety policies, which were amplified by the unit’s equipment being intertwined within several active units. The plant has been reinstalled in southeastern India and is now the only MIBK plant in operation within the country.

METHANOL

IPP purchased a methanol plant in Brazil that had just completed a turnaround, expanding its capacity to 750 tons/day. The plant had shut down due to the high cost of natural gas within the country.

IPP, knowing the natural gas market in the United States was attractive for the production of methanol, marketed the plant to companies and investors inside the United States. As a result, the plant was dismantled, relocated and re-erected in West Virginia, U.S., where it continues to provide methanol to a major consumer over-the-fence, allowing the company to produce methanol locally, with local low-cost gas, avoiding expensive freight charges.