MOSCOW (MRC) -- Formosa Petrochemical Corp (FPCC) is likely to shut a residual fluid catalytic cracker (RFCC) in March, as per Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in Taiwan informed that the RFCC unit is planned to be taken offstream in March 2015. The unit will be taken offstream on March 11, 2015 and will remain shut till the end of March.
Located in Mailiao, Taiwan, the RFCC unit has a propylene production capacity of 375,000 mt/yr.
As MRC informed before, in August 2014, The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recently issued three final GHG Prevention of Significant Deterioration construction permits for the Formosa Plastics facility in Point Comfort, Texas. Formosa is expanding its chemical complex, located near Victoria, and taking three actions with its turbines unit, olefins unit and low-density polyethylene (LDPE) unit.
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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