Formosa Plastics Corporation, U.S.A. continues its progress on the construction and startup of expansion units at Point Comfort, Texas site.
The 1.5 million-MT per year cracker has come online and was seen ramping up through January.
The 400,000-MT per year LDPE unit is in the commissioning stages, with initial start-up expected in April 2020.
The Olefins-III unit initial start-up has been completed, with output scale-up in progress. And the utilities-III unit is the commissioning stages, with initial start-up expected in February 2020.
Formosa had initially planned to start up the new cracker and LDPE plant by end-2019, but was postponed due to unexpected delays.
Formosa Plastics Corporation, U.S.A. is a vertically integrated producer of plastics resins and chemicals. Its resin line-up includes polyethylene and polypropylene marketed under the Formolene trade name. Its polyvinyl chloride resins are marketed under the Formolon trade name.