A flash fire at Formosa Plastics Corporation USA's petrochemical complex in Point Comfort, Texas, has injured at least six workers. Unconfirmed sources reveal that the fire occurred in one of the complex's polyethylene units.
Formosa's Point Comfort complex includes two steam crackers with a combined ethylene capacity of 1.5 mln tpa, 264,000 tpa of linear low-density polyethylene, 673,000 tpa of high-density polyethylene and 575,000 tpa of polyvinyl chloride.
03-May-13 
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