page_title: Formosa Plastics Corp
hierarchical_section_title: Formosa Plastics Corp
caption_attribution_description: English: Formosa Plastics plant near Illiopolis, Illinois
context_page_description: Formosa Plastics Corporation is a Taiwanese plastics company based in Taiwan that primarily produces polyvinyl chloride resins and other intermediate plastic products. It is the corporation around which influential businessman Wang Yung-ching formed the Formosa Plastics Group, and it remains central to the Group's petrochemical operations. The president of Formosa Plastics Corp. is Jason Lin.
  In 2019, Chemical & Engineering News ranked Formosa Plastics as the world's sixth largest chemical company by sales in 2018, with US$36.9 billion. That same year, Forbes ranked the company as No. 758 on its Global 2000 list of the world's largest public companies. Formosa has received substantial criticism over widespread pollution and reprisal tactics against environmental activists.
context_section_description: Formosa Plastics Corporation (Chinese: 台灣塑膠公司; lit.: 'Taiwan Plastics Company') is a Taiwanese plastics company based in Taiwan (formerly called "Formosa") that primarily produces polyvinyl chloride (PVC) resins and other intermediate plastic products. It is the corporation around which influential businessman Wang Yung-ching formed the Formosa Plastics Group, and it remains central to the Group's petrochemical operations. The president of Formosa Plastics Corp. (FPC) is Jason Lin (林健男).
  In 2019, Chemical & Engineering News ranked Formosa Plastics as the world's sixth largest chemical company by sales in 2018, with US$36.9 billion. That same year, Forbes ranked the company as No. 758 on its Global 2000 list of the world's largest public companies.  Formosa has received substantial criticism over widespread pollution and reprisal tactics against environmental activists.
caption: A Formosa Plastics plant near Illiopolis, Illinois. It closed after exploding on 23 April 2004, killing five employees.[1]
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