MOSCOW (MRC) -- Formosa Petrochemical Corp. (FPCC) is likely to brought on-stream its cracker following a maintenance turnaround, as per Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in Taiwan informed that the company plans to resume operations at the cracker on September 24, 2016. The cracker was taken off-stream on July 29, 2016 for a planned maintenance.
Located at Mailiao in Taiwan, the No.2 cracker has an ethylene production capacity of 1.03 million mt/year, propylene production capacity of 515,000 mt/year and butadiene production capacity of 162,000 mt/year.
Formosa, Asia's top naphtha importer, operates three naphtha crackers in Mailiao. These units have a total capacity of 2.93 million tpy of ethylene.
As MRC reported earlier, Taipei- Formosa Plastics, part of FPCC, is considering construction of a plant in Louisiana to produce 1.2-million t/y of ethylene from shale gas.
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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