MOSCOW (MRC) -- Formosa Plastics Corp (FPC) has shut its acrylonitrile (ACN) plant for maintenance turnaround, said Apic-online.
A source in Taiwan informed that the plant shut on January 16, 2015. It is likely to remain off-stream for around one month.
Located at Mailiao in Taiwan, the plant has a production capacity of 280,000 mt/year.
As MRC wrote before, FPC shut its polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plant for maintenance turnaround in September 2014 in Ningbo in Zhejiang province of China. The plant has a production capacity of 400,000 mt/year.
Formosa Petrochemical is involved primarily in the business of refining crude oil, selling refined petroleum products and producing and selling olefins (including ethylene, propylene, butadiene and BTX) from its naphtha cracking operations. Formosa Petrochemical is also the largest olefins producer in Taiwan and its olefins products are mostly sold to companies within the Formosa Group. Among the company's chemical products are paraxylene (PX), phenyl ethylene, acetone and pure terephthalic acid (PTA). The company's plastic products include acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) resins, polystyrene (PS), polypropylene (PP) and panlite (PC).
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