NewsFlashFPCC cracker hit by suspected damage

10 April 2008 11:05  [Source: ICIS news]

SINGAPORE (ICIS news)--Taiwan’s Formosa Petrochemical Corp (FPCC) was operating its No 1 cracker, which was restarted on Tuesday, at over 70% capacity as officials evaluated its furnaces for suspected damage following a three-day outage, a company spokesman said on Thursday.

 

 “We are not yet certain when the cracker would reach full operation rates,” he said.

 

When asked if one of the furnaces was damaged, the spokesman said the company was still evaluating.

 

The No 1 cracker, which is the company’s smallest cracker, has an ethylene capacity of 700,000 tonnes/year with mostly captive consumption. As many as nine downstream units were shut as a result of the three-day outage due to a power trip.

 

FPCC is one of the larger cracker operators in Asia with two other crackers in the same location. Its ethylene capacity from the three crackers totalled 2.8m tonnes/year.

 

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Florence Tan contributed to the article

By: Kew Jia Hui
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