In this biography
Quick facts
- Born
- 27 November 1958
- Birthplace
- Not publicly documented
- Country
- Thailand
- Nationality
- Indian
- Known for
- Building a Thailand-based international producer of PET, polyester and industrial materials
- Nationality
- Indian; included in the Thailand archive for his Thailand-based business career
- Education
- Bachelor of Commerce, University of Delhi
- Company
- Founder of Indorama Ventures, distinct from the wider Indorama family of businesses
- Materials
- PET packaging resin, polyester and related industrial inputs
- Qualifications
- Honorary doctorates are separate from his earned commerce degree
Why this life matters
His career connects cross-border entrepreneurship with the supply chains behind packaging, fibres and industrial chemicals.
Timeline
Key moments
Birth
EPL’s director filing records November 27.
Industrial beginnings in Thailand
The company history records wool operations followed by a PET manufacturing site.
International PET operations
Acquisitions extended manufacturing into the United States and Lithuania.
Integration and restructuring
Company records describe upstream expansion and the business structure around the 2010 Indorama Ventures listing.
Recycling expansion
The corporate history records the Wellman International acquisition in Ireland.
EPL board appointment
EPL’s July notice records his additional-director appointment effective May 27, subject to the shareholder process described there.
Indian background and business education
Aloke Lohia is an Indian industrialist whose principal business association is with Thailand-based Indorama Ventures. EPL’s 2025 director notice gives his birth date as 27 November 1958 and nationality as Indian. His inclusion in a Thailand archive reflects where he built the company, not a claim that he holds Thai nationality.
He earned a Bachelor of Commerce at the University of Delhi. The World Economic Forum’s contributor profile identifies him as Indorama Ventures’ founder and group chief executive and lists honorary doctorates. Those honorary awards should be distinguished from an earned research doctorate or the commerce degree that formed his academic training.
From wool production to PET
The corporate history traces Indorama Holdings’ wool operations to 1994 and its first Thai PET manufacturing site to 1995. PET, or polyethylene terephthalate, is used in packaging and polyester products. The business increasingly connected materials production with customers using those materials, rather than operating only as a consumer-facing brand.
The company’s February 2010 information memorandum describes expansion through acquisitions as well as improvements to existing plants. It records the purchase of European PET facilities in 2008 and the AlphaPet investment in North America in 2009. Growth involved both purchasing operations and developing production capacity.
An integrated international manufacturer
The memorandum also explains the move into purified terephthalic acid, an upstream input in the polyester chain, through three facilities in 2008. That helps explain vertical integration: control of more than one stage linking industrial feedstocks, resin and downstream products. The 2010 corporate restructuring and listing belong to this industrial story, rather than the first appearance of every underlying factory.
Indorama Ventures must also be distinguished from other companies bearing the Indorama name and associated with the wider Lohia family. Lohia’s role at this listed group is not interchangeable with another relative’s leadership of a separate corporate entity.
Recycling and later board responsibilities
The company history records entry into recycling through the 2011 acquisition of Wellman International in Ireland. Recycling became another part of the materials chain, alongside primary resin and fibre production. Announced future recycling targets are not the same as independently verified annual output.
A separate July 2025 EPL notice records Lohia’s appointment as an additional non-executive, non-independent director from May 27 and seeks shareholder approval through a postal ballot. That is a dated governance record, not proof by itself of every subsequent voting outcome. It extends the biography beyond a simple list of company sizes or estimated wealth.
Quick answers
Frequently asked questions about Aloke Lohia
- Is Aloke Lohia Indian or Thai?
- The cited company filings identify him as Indian. His business is based in Thailand, which is why this profile appears in the Thailand archive.
- What company did Aloke Lohia found?
- He founded Indorama Ventures, the Thailand-based materials group. It should not be conflated with every company using the Indorama name.
- What does Indorama Ventures manufacture?
- Its business includes PET packaging materials, polyester fibres and related industrial inputs, with recycling operations also part of the group.
- Where did Aloke Lohia study?
- He earned a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Delhi. The doctorates listed in the cited profiles are honorary qualifications.
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Sources and further reading
Explore the evidence
These references support the biography and offer further reading. Official records, first-person accounts and independent reporting provide different perspectives; image records document attribution and licensing.
- 1. EPL · July 2025 director noticeBirth date, Indian nationality, education and board process
The annexure explicitly gives 27 November 1958 and Indian nationality. The Thailand archive is an operational association; Person nationality is separately set to India. The filing does not establish a precise birthplace, which is withheld from structured data.
- 2. World Economic Forum · contributor profileFounder role, commerce degree and honorary qualifications
The profile describes honorary qualifications. It does not justify relabelling them as earned PhDs or selecting between differing institutional English names in older profiles.
- 3. Indorama Ventures · corporate historyWool, PET, international manufacturing and recycling milestones
This is the company’s own historical account, not an independent environmental assessment. Future recycling projections are not repeated as achieved annual results.
- 4. Indorama Ventures · 4 February 2010 memorandumIndustrial integration and the listing-era business structure
- 5. Indorama Ventures · May 2024 board matrixNationality and board-background cross-check
- 6. Wikimedia Commons · World Economic ForumBangkok 2012 portrait and CC BY-SA 2.0
The supplied portrait derives from a WEF group photograph by Sikarin Thanachaiary. The original Flickr image, https://www.flickr.com/photos/worldeconomicforum/7308148440/, passed Materialscientist’s review on 31 May 2012 under CC BY-SA 2.0. The converted portrait retains that licence; no endorsement is implied.
- 7. Wikimedia Commons · original WEF photographPhotographer attribution and original Flickr review