Taiwan’s Formosa Plastics Corp restarts ACN plant after shutdown

18 May 2011 11:07  [Source: ICIS news]

SHANGHAI (ICIS)--Major Taiwanese petrochemical producer, Formosa Plastics Corp (FPC), has restarted its 260,000 tonne/year acrylonitrile (ACN) plant at Mailiao in Taiwan after a small fire broke out at a pipeline late on 12 May, a company source said on Wednesday.

The plant was shut down on 13 May after the fire, which hit a pipeline at the petrochemical complex.

FPC restarted its ACN plant this week, but the source did not mention the actual date. “We have already restarted [the ACN plant] and are increasing its operating rate gradually. All things are going well,” the source said in Mandarin.

The fire was caused by a pipeline leak, but it had no impact on the plants at the site as most of them were immediately shut down when the fire occurred, the source added.

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By: Dolly Wu
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