Formosa $1 billion expansion on schedule.(Brief Article)

From: Plastics News | Date: September 11, 2000| Author: Esposito, Frank | Copyright information

Formosa Plastics Corp. USA is in the home stretch of a massive expansion that will add more than 1.5 billion pounds of polyolefins capacity at its Point Comfort, Texas, location by the first quarter of 2001.

The Livingston, N.J.-based firm also is undertaking a sizable debottlenecking of its PVC operations in Point Comfort and Baton Rouge, La., that will add 500 million pounds of capacity between mid-2001 and the end of 2002.

The $1 billion project also inclu...

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