Formosa Plastics USA delays Baton Rouge PVC expansion to Q4 2022: sources

The startup of Formosa Plastics USA's expansion of its 513,000 mt/year polyvinyl chloride plant in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has been pushed to Q4 2022 from Q4 2021, according to sources familiar with company operations.

The company did not respond to inquiries about the delay.

Formosa aims to debottleneck production at the plant, adding 130,077 mt/year of capacity, according to permitting documents.

Formosa's last public announcement about the expansion came in November 2019, when it was in "detailed engineering design" with steady commercial operation slated for Q4 2021, a year later than announced in December 2018.