Formosa starts up Asia's largest cracker
25 May 2007 11:40 [Source: ICIS news]
SINGAPORE (ICIS news)--Formosa Petrochemical Corp (FPC) has started up its newest No 3 cracker successfully this morning as scheduled and on spec material is expected in the next 48 hours, a company source confirmed on Friday.
“We confirmed that our No 3 cracker was started up on Friday morning after naphtha was fed into the unit,” the company source said. “On-spec material is expected over the weekend.”
The new cracker, which will be
The cracker project was initially scheduled to start up at end-2006, but was delayed to the second quarter of this year due to labour shortage and problems with securing construction materials.
An olefins conversion unit, producing 250,000 tonnes/year propylene, and a 176,000 tonne/year butadiene unit were also due to start up with the cracker.
By: Nurul Darni
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