Formosa Plastics Group last week started building the first blast
furnace for its $10 billion steel and seaport complex in central Vietnam,
dispelling doubts about its commitment.
This is also a new step into
steel manufacturing business of Formosa Plastics Group (FPG), Taiwan’s largest
conglomerate of biotechnology, petrochemical processing and electronic
production.
This blast furnace is one of the
three planned to be built at the project in Vung Ang Economic Zone, Ha Tinh
province. FPG plans to complete construction of the first within three years
and put it into commercial operation at the end of 2015, one year later than
the initial schedule because of the delay in master designing work.
“Many people doubt over our
ability to develop such a huge project. But we are proving that we are serious
with our commitment,” said a Hanoi-based representative of Formosa Ha Tinh
Steel Corporation, which FPG established to develop this project.
In 2008, FPG registered to build
a 7.5 million-tonne steel factory and a deep-seaport with total investment
capital of $7.9 billion. But the source said investment capital was estimated
to increase to around $10 billion. The group, at the end of 2010, revealed that
it had planned to increase total annual output capacity to 22 million tonnes.
The Taiwanese investor is
constructing the first phase of the 250 hectare, 14-berth Son Duong port, a
hostel for workers, office buildings and a 427-room guest house. It has also
completed leveling 961 hectares out of 1.966 hectares of land, or 48.9 per cent
of the site.
FPG reported that it had already
arranged $2 billion for constructing this project. FPG’s port and steel
manufacturing factory complex is expected to be a driving force for the
development of Ha Tinh and the central region. The investor estimated the
project, once completed, could create 10,000 direct jobs and about 100,000
indirect jobs.
Vo Kim Cu, chairman of Ha Tinh
People’s Committee, said the implementation of Formosa’s project would help
attract more investments to Vung Ang economic zone while breathing new life
into other projects in the zone.
Ngoc Linh | vir.com.vn
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