PTA, PET resins, and recycled polymers for global markets
Alpek Polyester USA operates six chemical manufacturing plants across the Southeast and Midwest, producing commodity and specialty polymers for industrial customers worldwide. The tech stack is heavily weighted toward operational control systems (DeltaV, Allen-Bradley, SAP, LIMS) rather than cloud or analytics infrastructure, and hiring skews ops and manufacturing roles—a mix that reflects a capital-intensive, asset-management-focused business where reliability, process optimization, and cost control drive competitive advantage.
Alpek Polyester USA manufactures PTA (terephthalic acid), PET resins, recycled PET (rPET), and specialty polymers at six operational sites in the Carolinas, Mississippi, Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. The company is a division of Alpek, the petrochemicals and synthetic fibers business of Alfa, a major Mexican corporation. With over 1,300 domestic employees, Alpek serves global industrial customers through an integrated supply chain spanning feedstock production through polymer conversion. The business competes on operational efficiency, reliability, and feedstock cost management.
Alpek operates Emerson DeltaV and Allen-Bradley distributed control systems, SAP for enterprise resource planning, LIMS for lab data management, and Power BI for reporting and analytics across its six operational sites.
Six operational sites across the Carolinas, Mississippi, Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. The company is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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