Formosa Mailiao power outage hits 10 plants
08 April 2008 04:37 [Source: ICIS news]
By Florence Tan
SINGAPORE (ICIS news)--A power outage at Formosa Group’s petrochemical complex in Mailiao, Taiwan, on Sunday shut a cracker and nine other plants, but production was gradually being resumed, company spokesmen said.
A feeder problem caused a power trip at 18:09 local time (10:09 GMT) that day, a Formosa Chemical & Fiber Corp (FCFC) spokesman said on Tuesday.
Part of FCFC’s No 2 styrene monomer (SM) plant and its two purified terephthalic acid (PTA) units were shut, but operations at these plants were back to normal after power supply resumed early Monday morning, he added.
FCFC’s polypropylene facilities with a total capacity of around 450,000 tonnes a year, however, were not affected by the power outage, a company source said.
Formosa Petrochemical Corp (FPCC), meanwhile, was heating up its No 1 700,000 tonne/year cracker on Monday, gearing it up for a restart, company spokesman Lin Keh-Yen said. He could not say when it will resume full operations.
Other FPCC crackers were unaffected by the power outage, Lin said.
Formosa Plastics Corp (FPC) also shut its methyl methacrylate (MMA) plant which could be restarted by next week.
FPC's 150,000 tonne/year ethylene vinyl acetate line at its 240,000 tonne/year EVA/LDPE (low linear polyethylene) plant at Mailiao, however, was not affected by the power outage, a company official said.
Nan Ya Plastics, a major monoethylene glycol (MEG) maker at Mailiao, could not be immediately reached for comment.
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Chow Bee Lin, Helen Lee and Hong Chou Hui contributed to this article.
By: Florence Tan
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