Taiwan's petrochemical output soars in 2007

10 March 2008 06:09  [Source: ICIS news]

SINGAPORE (ICIS news)--Taiwan’s petrochemical output soared in 2007 from a year ago as new plants were brought on stream, statistics from the local association showed on Monday.

The country’s ethylene production jumped 26.9% to over 3.6m tonnes in 2007 from the previous year after Formosa Petrochemical brought its 1.2m tonne/year cracker – Asia’s largest – on stream in May last year, the Petrochemical Industry Association of Taiwan (PIAT) said.

Propylene and butadiene (BD) output also jumped 34.7% and 32.2% respectively during the same period.

Taiwan’s monoethylene glycol (MEG) production soared 33.7% last year from 2006 to nearly 1.8m tonnes after Nan Ya Plastics brought on stream a 700,000 tonne/year unit.

Taiwan petchem output (tonne)

Product	2007	2006
Ethylene	3,665,950	2,888,364
Propylene	2,835,072	2,104,826
Butadiene	521,453	394,469
HDPE	577,454	521,012
LDPE/EVA/LLDPE	700,346	597,014
PP	1,261,627	1,174,290
PS	760,573	713,173
PVC	1,512,226	1,372,758
PTA	4,437,153	4,400,326
MEG	1,795,131	1,342,501

Source: Petrochemical Industry Association of Taiwan

By: Florence Tan
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