Formosa Plastics Group, Taiwan’s largest industrial conglomerate, is evaluating proposals to build a huge steel and car assembly complex in the island’s mid-west county of Changhwa, a local newspaper said on Monday, according to Reuters.
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The news agency said the Chinese-language Commercial Times newspaper quoted group chairman Wang Yung-ching as saying in an interview the planned complex would include upstream to downstream steel processing systems, plus car engine and assembly plants – it did not give the value for the investment.
The group is also considering investing $US1.3-1.4 billion in building two coal-powered generator plants located in northern and central Taiwan, the paper said, according to Reuters, which noted that Formosa Group includes Formosa Plastics Corp, Nan Ya Plastics, Formosa Chemical & Fibre Corp and Formosa Petrochemical Corp, Taiwan’s only private oil refiner.
