Formosa Plastics expects to restart multiple units at its Point Comfort, Texas, complex over 

the long Fourth  of July  holiday  weekend  following  an unplanned  outage,  sources  said 

Tuesday. 

The outage began Saturday after lightning  struck a transformer, causing  a power outage  

at a pair of olefins units,  as well as the polyethylene,  polypropylene,  ethylene glycol and 

chlor-alkali plants, sources said. 

Formosa could not immediately provide comment Tuesday. 

A source with knowledge of company operations said the shutdown was having an impact

on production at the site, with the outage expected to last seven to 10 days. 

The Point Comfort  complex,  Formosa's largest  in the US, is located about 90 miles from 

Corpus Christi on the Texas Gulf Coast. 

Formosa's steam  crackers  produce about 3.3  million mt/year of olefins at Point Comfort. 

The complex can produce almost 1.5 million mt/year of high density polyethylene, 582,000 

mt/year of linear low-density polyethylene, 1.9 million mt/year of polypropylene and 736,00

0 mt/year of chlor-alkali.