SINGAPORE (ICIS) -- Nan Ya Plastics, an affiliate of Taiwan's petrochemical giant Formosa Plastics, has launched on Wednesday a comprehensive safety checks of its facilities in Chiayi county after Sunday's fire damaged its 48,000 tonne/year synthetic paper plant.
⌠We have started to look at all the machinery in detail to see if there is anything that needs to be maintained or replaced, said company spokesperson David Tsou, adding that the whole process would take 45 days to complete.
Inspections would be conducted at Nan Ya's 174,000 tonne/year polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pipe plant, its 56,400 tonne/year PVC sheeting facility and its construction materials plant in the county in southern Taiwan. The plants would continue operating during the safety checks.
The move was meant to prevent a similar incident on 3 October, when a 17-hour blaze damaged Nan Ya's synthetic paper plant and razed a warehouse.