(1) Civil works

Land reclamation : 109.15 million cubic meters of sand were poured to create land, sufficient in volume to construct a three story tall, eight-lane wide building along the 373 km-long stretch of freeway from Keelung to Kaohsiung. The total area of reclaimed land is 2,255 hectares, about 8% the size of Taipei City (27, 300 hectares) and 19% the size of Kaohsiung City (11, 400 hectares), or equal to 0.062% of Taiwan's land area.

Engineering foundation :The total length of piles driven amounts to 4.5 million meters and the total amount of concrete used reached 8.39 million cubic meters (requiring approximately 1.7 million tons of cement).

Plant construction : A total of 61 plants were built in a single complex, including oil refineries, naphtha cracking plants, co-generation plants, power plants, heavy machinery plants, boiler plants, wafer fabrication plants and petrochemical-related plants. Piping inside the plant area alone extends for 3,000 km.

Complex area : The area of the entire complex totals 2,603 hectares, more than four times the total of the Linyuan (388 ha), Tashih (115 ha), and Toufen (96 ha) petrochemical industrial zones.

(2) Mailiao Port

The Project's Mailiao Port occupies an area of 476 hectares, comparable to the size of Taichung Port (487 ha) and more spacious than Keelung Port (384 ha). With water level 24 meters deep during mid-tide, the Port can accommodate 300,000 ton vessels. Therefore, it is Taiwan's deepest port and the first privately funded industrial port. Upon completion, the Port has been able to handle up to 70 million tons of cargo till the end of  2008, second only to Kaohsiung Harbor. Although Mailiao Port is being constructed for industrial purposes, its operations in Yunlin County will incorporate the vast adjacent hinterland area into the port zone. Consequently, the resultant convenient marine transportation will promote the development of local industry.

(3) Independent Power Plant

The Project plans to install a large thermal power plant equipped with four sets of generating units that will each generate 600, 000 kW of electricity. The combined output of the three completed sets of generators is 1.8 million kW. Since commercial operation officially commenced in June 1999, September 1999 and September 2000, respectively, all energy generated has been sold to the Taiwan Power Company and incorporated into the national power grid. This contribution has gone a long way to easing Taiwan's power shortage.

(4) Oil refinery

The oil refinery capacity increased from 450,000 to 540,000 barrels/day upon the completion of phase IV expansion. Meanwhile, the naphtha capacity attained at 4.1 million ton/year, which is sufficient to supply for the entire Mailiao Complex. Other petroleum products including gasoline, diesel, kerosene and LG are exported to overseas markets.

(5) Naphtha Cracking Plant

In total there are three naphtha cracking plants (NCP). Upon the completion of the NCP1 de-bottlenecking project, the ethylene capacity will increase from 0.45 million tons/year to 0.7 million tons/year; and the NCP2 ethylene capacity is 1 million tons/year. The NCP3 construction project, with a capacity of 1.2 million tons/year, has been completed in 2007 and is expected to have a combined ethylene capacity of 2.9 million tons/year.

(6) Co-generation plant

The plant is designated to generate electricity, steam, and water for industrial use, as well as hyperpure water, nitrogen, oxygen, and compressed air for use by plants within the complex. The largest Co-generation plant in Taiwan currently has 16 generation sets installed, with a total capacity of 2.82 million kW. The excess electricity produced, after supplying manufacturing needs, is sold to Taiwan Power Company to easing Taiwan's power shortage. 

(7) Machinery Shop and Boiler Shop

The machinery shop primarily engages in the design, manufacture, installation, and construction of oil refining and petrochemical process eguipment (reactors, towers, pressure containers, earth covered tanks etc). The combined capacity is 10M£px1OOMLxl ,OOOMT; i.e. exceeding 10 meters in diameter, 100 meters in length and 1,000 tons in weight for general equipment. The boiler shop is mainly engaged in the planning, design, manufacture, installation, and construction for the 50-150 MW co-generation power plant and the 600 MW independent power plant.

(8) Wafer fabrication plant

This wafer plant is a joint venture owned by Formosa Plastics, Asia-Pacific Investment, and Japan's SUMCO TECHXIV Corporation for the production of 8-inch wafers with an annual output of 3.84 million pcs and the investment in the venture totals to US$314 million. Plant construction was completed in March 1999 and the plant was qualified by ISO-9001:2000 in December 2002, ISO-14001 in March 2001, QS9000 in March 2003, and TS16949 and OHSAS18001 in April 2005. In December 2006, the plant further received the "TPM Excellence Award" from Japan institute of Plant Maintenance (JIPM), and in August 2007 also received the "Golden Merchant Award".

A contract for the investment in a 12-inch wafer fabrication plant was officially signed in February 2005, It's the leading 12-inch wafer fabrication plant in Taiwan that is capable of implementing a consistent process from crystal pulling to epitaxy and has started the production from November 2006, and the capacity raised to 160 thousand pcs/month in the end of 2008.

(9) Formosa Asahi Spandex Co. Ltd.

Formosa Asahi Spandex Co. Ltd., with a spandex capacity of 5,000 tons/day, is a joint venture between Formosa Plastics and Asahi Kasei, with a total investment of US$85.2 million. Phase I, with a capacity of 2,500 ton/year, was completed and entered production in the third quarter of 2000. Phase II, with a capacity of 2,500 ton/day was completed and commenced production in March 2002. The polytetramethylene glycol (PTMG) expansion project with a capacity of 18,000 ton/year was completed. The 4,000 tons of the spandex capacity was completed and entered production at the third quarter, and the other 14,000 tons was completed and entered production in September 2002. We passed ISO-14001 certification in September 2002; ISO-9001 certification in October 2004; and OHSAS-18001 in January 2005.