Taiwan’s Far Eastern Group to restart Guanyin PET plant

06 January 2012 08:27  [Source: ICIS news]

SINGAPORE (ICIS)--Taiwan's Far Eastern Group in planning to restart its polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottle resin plant on 9 or 10 January, after two weeks of shutdown, a company source said on Friday.

The PET plant located at Guanyin, Taoyuan county, was taken off line on 22 December for a scheduled maintenance.

Far Eastern Group operates two PET plants in Taiwan with a combined capacity of 650,000 tonnes/year.

The second plant, which has a smaller capacity than the Guanyin line, is located at Xinpu in Hsinchu county.

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By: Yu Guo
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