Hofuf
Hofuf or Al Hufuf , town (1993 pop. 225,847), E Saudi Arabia. Textile manufacturing, food processing, and Arabian horse breeding are important economic activities. It is also a trade center for dates, wheat, and fruit and has a large mosque. Originally called Hasa, it was the center of the Karmathian movement in the 10th cent. The oil fields of Shimanya are nearby.
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Formosa Plastics labors to clean up its image: contract with Point Comfort opposition leads the way.
Magazine article from: Chemical Week; 6/23/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...Point Comfort opposition leads the way Formosa Plastics U.S.A (Livingston, NJ...different interests will claims success. "Formosa is a very big, strong, committed company...Wu, v.p./ business development for Formosa Texas. "All along we were encouraged...
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CSB: Formosa did too little to prevent 2004 explosion; Company says improvements have been made.(News)
Magazine article from: Plastics News; 3/12/2007; 700+ words
; ...at a PVC plant in Illiopolis, Ill., Formosa Plastics Corp. USA did not do enough...Plastics LP, which sold the plant to Formosa in 2002. This accident occurred because...In the release, CSB officials said a Formosa employee tried to open the wrong valve...
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Formosa Plastic's Ningbo refining complex put on agenda.(New Setup, Agreement & Plan)
Magazine article from: China Chemical Reporter; 4/6/2009; 700+ words
; The second phase of Formosa Plastic Group's petrochemical project...second phase construction soon. The Formosa Ningbo Phase I includes nine projects...Clearly, the second phase would make Formosa Ningbo an integrated petrochemical complex...
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Formosa IPO would include J-M, Nan Ya Plastics.(News)(Formosa Plastics Group)(Formosa Plastics Corp. USA)(J-M Manufacturing Co. Inc.)(Nan Ya Plastics Corp.)(Initial public offerings)
Magazine article from: Plastics News; 5/30/2005; ; 700+ words
; Byline: Frank Esposito Formosa Plastics Group is planning a U.S...would combine PVC/polyolefins maker Formosa Plastics Corp. USA with plastic pipe...Plastics Corp. The IPO would help Formosa, a conglomerate based in Taipei...
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 "Victoria Advocate (Victoria, TX)")
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Formosa: Neighbors received warning.
Newspaper article from: Victoria Advocate (Victoria, TX); 10/12/2005; 700+ words
; ...Popplewell Oct. 12--POINT COMFORT -- A Formosa Plastic Corp. official said the plant...didn't get the call. Jim Shepard, Formosa's director of communications, was responding...Monday, Shepard said, "A review of the Formosa telephone notification records shows that...
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Formosa sponsors snactuary, but will it appease critics?
Magazine article from: Plastics News; 12/20/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...245-acre wetlands habitat sponsored by Formosa Plastics Corp. as a mere drop in the bucket...which they're accustomed. Last month, Formosa's Point Comfort, Texas, operation dedicated the Formosa-Tejano Wetlands with a ribbon-cutting...
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Formosa expanding capacity at Texas site.(News)(Formosa Plastics Corporation U.S.A.)
Magazine article from: Plastics News; 7/4/2005; ; 700+ words
; Byline: Frank Esposito Formosa Plastics Corp. USA plans to add 375...Environmental Protection Agency under which Formosa will pay $450,000 in fines and spend...monomer. Chih-Tsuen Lee, president of Formosa USA parent Formosa Plastics Corp...
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Formosa Plastics U.S.A. Extends Pavilion Technologies Throughout its Polyethylene Business; The World's Two Largest Polyethylene Lines Now Use Pavilion's Polymer Solution.
Business Wire; 12/7/2005; 700+ words
; ...compliance solutions, today announced that Formosa Plastics Corporation (FPC), U.S...This expansion is based on the success of Formosa's first Pavilion project deployed in 2002 on two of its polyethylene lines. Formosa will leverage the new Pavilion8-based...
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 "Herald & Review (Decatur, IL)")
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More than two years after explosion, Formosa Plastics plant remains closed with uncertain future.
Newspaper article from: Herald & Review (Decatur, IL); 10/22/2006; 700+ words
; ...s been more than two years since the Formosa Plastics chemical plant next to Illiopolis...like a giant broken chemistry set, but Formosa insists it will be back. The company...to have some type of facility there," Formosa spokesman Rob Thibault said last week...
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Formosa's choice: rebuild or relocate?(Opinion)(Formosa Plastics Corporation U.S.A.)
Magazine article from: Plastics News; 5/30/2005; 700+ words
; Formosa Plastics Corp. USA is facing a tough choice in Illiopolis...explosion that killed five workers and destroyed most of Formosa's specialty PVC resin plant in that small Midwestern town, Formosa publicly has said it will rebuild. But officials...
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Formosa Plastics Corporation
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
Formosa Plastics Corporation 39 Chung Shan 3rd...pioneer of the Taiwanese plastics industry, Formosa Plastics Corporation is the world ’...x2019; s gross national product. Formosa Plastics Corporation is the keystone of...
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Formosa
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Formosa former name for Taiwan, an island off the south-east coast of China where the...impostor George Psalmanazar (1679?–1763) presented himself as a native of Formosa, compiling a catechism in its supposed language.
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Formosa Strait
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Formosa Strait see Taiwan Strait .
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Formosa Resolution
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
Formosa Resolution an act of Congress passed in 1955 that authorized the use of force if China invaded Taiwan. It arose in response to sporadic fighting between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC) forces that threatened to escalate.
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Clark Field, attack on
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
...preceded it by some hours. Taking off from Formosa, 108 bombers of the Eleventh Japanese...permission to bomb Japanese airfields on Formosa—though MacArthur later denied...fearful of an immediate raid on their Formosa airfields: they knew the Americans must...
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