MOSCOW (MRC) -- Formosa Plastics corporation (FPC) is likely to shut its ethylene dichloride (EDC) and vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) plant in Mailiao, as per Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in Taiwan informed that the company has schedule to take the plant off-line for maintenance in mid-June 2018. The plant is expected to remian off-line for around one month.
Located at Mailiao, Taiwan, the EDC plant has a production capacity of 1.65 million mt/year and VCM plant has a production capacity of 800,000 mt/year.
As MRC informed before, on 19 March, 2018, Formosa Petrochemical Corp (FPCC) undertook an emergency shutdown at its No. 1 cracker in Mailiao owing to technical issues. The plant remained 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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