MOSCOW (MRC) -- Formosa Petrochemical Corp (FPCC) has brought on-stream its residual fluid catalytic cracker (RFCC) unit in Mailiao, as per Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in Taiwan informed that the company has resumed operations at the unit on April 12, 2018. The unit was taken off-line for for maintenance in early-March 2018.
Located in Mailiao, Taiwan, the RFCC has a propylene capacity of 350,000 mt/year.
As MRC informed before, on 19 March, 2018, FPCC undertook an emergency shutdown at its No. 1 cracker in Mailiao owing to technical issues. The plant was expected to remain off-line for around one day. Located at Mailiao in Taiwan, the No. 1 cracker has an ethylene production capacity of 700,000 mt/year, propylene production capacity of 350,000 mt/year and butadiene production capacity of 109,000 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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