Taiwan’s Formosa shut steam cracker for maintenance

It is reported that Taiwan’s Formosa Plastic Group has taken its No. 3 steam cracker in Mailiao off-stream on 11 August 2020 for routine maintenance work. 

The cracker has an annual capacity of 1.2 million tons/year of ethylene, 600,000 tons/year of propylene, and 180,000 tons/year of butadiene.

The unit is expected to remain shut for a month, however, sources do not expect any major impact on the ethylene market given the comfortable supply condition across the Asia region.