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Formosa Starts Up First Train of New PP Unit.


Formosa Plastics Formosa Plastics Corporation (Traditional Chinese: 台灣塑膠公司; lit. "Taiwan Plastic Company") is a Taiwanese company based in Taiwan that primarily produces polyvinyl chloride (PVC) resins and  Corp., Livingston Livingston, family of American statesmen, diplomats, and jurists. Robert R. Livingston (1654–1728)


Robert R. Livingston, 1654–1728, b.
, N.J., has started up the first half of its new 700-million-lb/yr PP plant in Point Comfort, Texas. The first 350- million-lb train produces homopolymers, impact copolymers, and random copolymers. Due to current PP over-supply, Formosa Formosa, province, Argentina
Formosa, province (1991 pop. 404,367), 27,825 sq mi (72,067 sq km), N Argentina. The city of Formosa is the capital.
Formosa, former name for Taiwan
Formosa: see Taiwan.
 is postponing start up of the second train. The new plant has the largest reactors in the world using Chisso technology, which produces fractional-melt and high-crystalline grades. Formosa's existing PP unit in Texas uses BASF BASF Bar Association of San Francisco (since 1872; San Francisco, California)
BASF Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik (German chemical products company)
BASF Builders Association of South Florida
 Novolen technology (now owned by Equistar).
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Date:Jun 1, 2001
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