CSR Activities

Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL) Deputy Manager Ms. Sayumporn Laovachirasuwan (left) recently presented Mr. Taworn Areeslip, Head of the Education Supervisory Unit of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) Education Department, with education packs for teaching children about the separation of plastic waste and the recycling of plastic. She also presented Mr. Taworn with polo shirts made from recycled PET bottles.

Polyethylene Terephthalate, or PET, is commonly used to make packaging such as bottles and is fully recyclable. IVL provides education materials and speakers to help young people play a role in creating a circular economy, where all plastics are separated and sent for recycling.

Bangkok, Thailand – 8 October 2018 – Welcome to the end of the semester. Indorama Ventures Plc provided recycle education packs (educational comic books, leaflets about plastic, Let’s Recycle PET posters, recycled PET materials and T-shirts made from PET bottles, to Tavises (Magic Eyes) Learning Center. These will be used to educate and create awareness of how important it is to recycle PET and how recycled PET can help save the environment. Anyone interested to read can go to Bangkok Arts and Culture, Tavises Learning Center, 4th floor, from now on.

It is common knowledge that recycling rates in the US are significantly lower than other countries. For the past two years, IVXP & AP set out on a journey to help increase these rates. We worked with the local Decatur City Recycling Center to understand their needs and limitations of recycling in the area. Understanding those limitations, we wanted to focus on promoting and educating the importance of recycling and the best place to start was in our local schools.

IVXP and AlphaPet belong to a group called Partners in Education (PIE), we partner with a local school, Cedar Ridge Middle School (CRMS) to work with the more than 750 students. Our school didn’t have a formal recycling program. We developed an educational recycling program that focused on three things: 1- Indorama Ventures- who we were and what we manufactured in their community; 2--what recycling means, and 3- why it should be important to all of us. The program included three different competitions:

1. Competition against the grades - which grade could collect the most pounds of recycled material during the five weeks.
2. Second Chance Competition- create a new and different use for something that would’ve thrown in the garbage. In 2018 we added a new category “Best Use of Recycled PET”.
3. End of School year competition- collect 9000 pounds (2017) and 11,500 pounds (2018) of recycled material.

For five weeks, 15 Indorama Ventures Xylenes & PTA and AlphaPet Employees teach about recycling, and then hold a huge rally in the gymnasium, where we invite both local and state officials, TV stations and local newspaper reporters attend.

The recycling program that we have initiated at CRMS has earned them a nomination to receive a CLAS (Council for Leaders in Alabama Schools) Banner School Award. It is a very high honor to be nominated to receive this award.

In 2017, CRMS collected more than 12000 pounds of recycled materials and currently have collected over 6000 pounds.

Bangkok, Thailand – 3 October 2018 – Ms. Dolhatai Likanasudh, Deputy Manager, Indorama Ventures PCL, left, presents a polo shirt made from 12 recycled PET bottles to Ms. Wanweera Rachdawong, Chief Executive Officer, Thailand Management Association (TMA), on the occasion of TMA Global CEO conference on October 3rd, 2018, at the Anantara Hotel, Bangkok. Indorama Ventures produces polo shirts and t-shirts from used PET bottles as part of its education program for people to understand the benefits of recycling. The shirts are produced by its customer from yarns made at the IVL plant in Nakhon Pathom which has been recycling bottles since 2014.

Indorama Ventures team welcomed General Prayut Chan-o-cha, Prime Minister of Thailand (5th from the left) at the company’s booth in Thailand Industry Expo 2018. The exhibition is open to the public from 2-5 August 2018 at Challenger 2-3 , IMPACT Muang Thong Thani.

TPT Petrochemical, Indorama Polyester Industry and Indorama Petrochem organized "CPA Mobile Medical Clinic Y2018", at Nong Fab temple, Maptaphut. 179 locals participated for the health checkup service.

TPT Petrochemicals and Islam Community (Muslim) played football and had dinner together in order to build relationship and promote anti-drug campaign.

TPT Petrochemicals provided education scholarships to employees' children at Sea Turtles Conservation Center Royal Thai Navy, Sattahip in Chonburi, Thailand. On the same day, the employees’ families with the members of TPT Cycling Club also participated the activity of releasing sea turtles and snapper fish in order to raise awareness about environmental conservation, support the conservation of biodiversity and sea turtles.

TPT Petrochemicals provided education scholarships to employees' children at Sea Turtles Conservation Center Royal Thai Navy, Sattahip in Chonburi, Thailand. On the same day, the employees’ families with the members of TPT Cycling Club also participated the activity of releasing sea turtles and snapper fish in order to raise awareness about environmental conservation, support the conservation of biodiversity and sea turtles.

Indorama Ventures HR Global conducted an internship program for Chulalongkorn University students at Head office Bangkok.

Indorama Ventures’ employee volunteers join Medical Mission at Mae Hong Son with Operation Smile Thailand

Indorama Ventures’ employee volunteers participated in Operation Smile Thailand at Mae Hong Son to help provide access to surgery and post-operative care to patients who were born with cleft lips or palates; a birth defect, which can be repaired through surgery. This time there were 105 patients admitted and they will get surgery on 12 -15 February 2018.