MOSCOW (MRC) -- Formosa Plastics Corp (FPC) has shut a polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plant for maintenance turnaround, as per Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in China informed that the plant was shut on September 9, 2014. It is planned to remain shut for around one month.
Located at Ningbo in Zhejiang province of China, the plant has a production capacity of 400,000 mt/year.
As MRC reported earlier, Formosa Petrochemical Corp (FPC) is planning to shut its No. 1 residual fluid catalytic cracker (RFCC) for maintenance turnaround in H2 September 2014. The planned shutdown has been planned to take care of a technical glitch. Located at Mailiao in Taiwan, the unit has a propylene capacity of 375,000 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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