Published on June 29, 2017
Formosa Plastics is planning to restart its multiple units based in Texas in the upcoming long weekend holiday. Earlier the units were shut down due to transformer failure at a pair of olefin units. Earlier the shutdown has an adverse impact on production at the site, with the outage expected to last 7 to 10 days. The Point Comfort complex, Formosa's largest in the US, is located about 90 miles from Corpus Christi on the Texas Gulf Coast. Formosa's steam crackers produce about 3.3 mln mtpa of olefins at Point Comfort
