Formosa Plastics Corporation USA has begun an investigation to determine what caused Thursday's flash fire that injured 16 workers at its Point Comfort, Texas, petrochemical complex, a company spokesman said Friday. There was no time ...
Tags: Formosa, Texas, Complex Fire
US polyethylene contracts for HDPE film, LDPE and LLDPE rose in March, market sources said Tuesday. Producers initially planned to increase prices for those grades in February, but delayed the hikes for film-grade PE resins to match ...
US prices for all Formosa Plastics liquid caustic soda products will increase by $30/dry st immediately or as contract terms allow, the company said in a letter to customers Wednesday. The company did not provide a reason for the ...
As LED lighting is expected to boom, firms have been looking into adopting automated production. Nan Ya Photonics, a Taiwan-based joint venture between LED chipmaker Epistar and the Formosa Plastics Group, announced at the beginning of 2012 ...
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Makers are boosting the lighting downstream segment to take advantage of the projected demand upswing in coming years. Taiwan’s LED manufacturers continue to strengthen the components and service segments while pushing for vertical ...
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VietNamNet Bridge reported that Formosa Plastics has just started the construction of the first blast furnace of the steel mill in Vung Ang economic zone. However, industry experts said that they feel worry instead of joy about the project ...
Tags: Steel project, steel mill, blast furnace, hot rolled steel
Taipei, Dec. 18, 2012 (CENS)--After nine months of hard work, Nan Ya Photonics Inc., a high-brightness LED wafer and chip maker affiliated with Taiwan's Formosa Plastics Group, is about to fully automate its production lines of LED bulbs ...
Tags: high-brightness LED wafer, LED bulbs, energy-saving LED lightings
It's reported that Taiwanese Formosa Plastics has just begun the construction of the first blast furnace of the steel mill in Vung Ang economic zone. However, industry experts feared that the project may bring unpredictable ...
Tags: Industry activities, Steel Project, steel mill, Formosa Plastics
Taipei, Dec. 14, 2012 (CENS)--Formosa Plastics U.S.A. will invest US$1.7 billion (NT$49.38 billion) to expand its capacities and switch to shale gas as the raw material for its naphtha crackers, which will enable it to cut production cost ...
Tags: raw material, naphtha crackers, Formosa Plastics, oil shale resources
The China Post reported that construction began on a blast furnace that will be part of a steel mill complex built with investment by Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Corporation, a Formosa Plastics Group steel venture in Vietnam. Mr William Wong ...
Tags: steel mill complex, Plastics Group steel venture in Vietnam
Taipei, Oct. 16, 2012 (CENS)--Jeffrey Koo Jr., chairman of Chinatrust Charity Foundation, has reportedly joined hands with Wang Wen-yuan, president of Formosa Plastics Group, and a Singaporean private equity fund to spend NT$17.5 billion in ...
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Taipei,Dec.7,2012(CENS)--After being deferred for over one year,a high value-added petrochemical investment project of Formosa Plastics Group(FPG)is finally ready for implementation,as the Petitions and Appeals Committee of the Executive ...
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Taipei, Dec. 5, 2012 (CENS)--The four major member firms of Formosa Plastics Group (FPG) racked up total revenue of NT$137.677 billion in November, up 3.2% year-on-year, announced the group yesterday (Dec. 4). The group noted that the ...
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Taipei, Dec.5, 2012 (CENS)--Being optimistic about steel markets in Southeast Asia and to tap preferential tariffs in Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Formosa Plastics Group's (FPG) is investing to build a steel mill in Ha ...
Tags: steel, ASEAN, FPG, steel mill, preferential tariffs
Various environment protection and health groups in Taiwan have sought a ban on expansion of the naphtha cracker operated by the Formosa Plastics Group in Yunlin County’s Mailiao Township. Representatives of the Changhua Medical ...
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