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SEAISI CONF: Formosa Plastics Group builds Southeast Asia's largest integrated mill

May 29, 2012 - 07:51 GMT Location: Bali

KEYWORDS: Formosa Plastic Group , Taiwan , Vietnam , crude steel , integrated mill

Southeast Asia will have a 22.5 million tpy integrated steel plant, its largest, by 2020.

Taiwan's Formosa Plastics Group has decided to upscale the capacity of its integrated steel works in Vietnam to 22.5 million tpy, up from an originally planned 15 million tpy, to meet growing global demand for steel, a senior official told Metal Bulletin. The plant, which is located in Vung Ang industrial zone in Vietnam's Ha Tinh province, will be the largest integrated...

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