MOSCOW (MRC) -- Formosa Petrochemical Corp (FPCC) has restarted its No.1 residual fluid catalytic cracker (RFCC) unit, as per Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in Taiwan informed that the company has resumed operations at its RFCC unit over the weekend following a maintenance turnaround. The unit was shut in early March 2016.
Located in Mailiao, Taiwan, the No.1 RFCC unit has a propylene capacity of 375,000 mt/year.
As MRC wrote before, on March 22, 2015, FPCC took off-stream the RFCC No.1 unit. The unit remained shut till the end of March. Located in Mailiao, Taiwan, the RFCC unit has a propylene production capacity of 375,000 mt/yr.
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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