Taiwan's Formosa Petrochemical Corp. officials announced that its No. 1 naptha cracker, which has been offline several times in the past few years, will once again be taken down for scheduled maintenance at the end of June for 35 days. 

The facility, located at Mailiao, Taiwan, has a capacity of 700,000 tons per year and is one of three crackers the company operates. This latest round of maintenance has been scheduled in order to meet the Taiwan government's request to meet safety checks due to a number of fires. The ...