Formosa Plastics filed a construction permit application with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) last week to build a new polyethylene plant at its Point Comfort, Texas facility, as per ArgusMedia. The permit application, filed on 22 December, does not specify the type of polyethylene that would be produced, the proposed capacity of the plant, or a timeline for construction. The new capacity would be in addition to a 625,000 tpa low density polyethylene plant already under construction at Point Comfort; that plant is scheduled for start-up in 2017.
The new derivatives units come as Formosa plans to add 1 mln tpa of ethylene capacity at the site scheduled for operations in 2016. Formosa's new olefins plant and propane dehydrogenation (PDH) unit will include 14 cracking furnaces, four PDH reactors, four steam boilers and associated equipment. Formosa currently operates two steam crackers at Point Comfort with a total ethylene capacity of up to 1.5 mln tpa.
31-Dec-14 
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