Taiwan’s Formosa shut Mailiao cracker on technical issues

It is reported that Formosa Petrochemical has unexpectedly shut its No. 1 cracker in Mailiao, Taiwan on 12 April 2021 due to an unspecified technical issue. 

The cracker has an annual capacity of 700,000 tons of ethylene and 350,000 tons of propylene.

According to market sources, the cracker would remain offline for 7 to 10 days, which might not generate any major impact on the downstream productions.