Taiwan based Formosa has made an important announcement regarding the restart of its naphtha fed steam cracker unit. The steam cracker will be restarted by end of this week.
The steam cracker based at Mailiao in Taiwan has the production capacity to produce 700,000 mt/year of ethylene, 350,000 mt/year of propylene and 109,000 mt/year of butadiene.
The company has three naphtha-fed steam crackers in Mailiao. The No. 2 cracker is able to produce 1.03 million mt/year of ethylene, 515,000 mt/year of propylene and 162,000 mt/year of butadiene, while the No. 3 unit is capable of producing 1.2 million mt/year of ethylene, 600,000 mt/year of propylene and 180,000 mt/year of butadiene.
