MOSCOW (MRC) -- Formosa Petrochemical Corp (FPCC) has restarted its No.1 cracker, according to Apic-online.
A Polymerupdate source in Taiwan informed that the cracker restarted over the weekend. It was shut for maintenance turnaround on June 9, 2015.
Located in Mailiao, Taiwan, the cracker has an ethylene capacity of 700,000 mt/year.
As MRC informed before, Taipei-Formosa Plastics is considering construction of a plant in Louisiana to produce 1.2-million t/y of ethylene from shale gas.
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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