Talk:Formosa Ha Tinh Steel

Status and outlook 2017/2018
“The construction of the second blast furnace is 80 percent complete and it is likely to be operational by the end of the year” (http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2017/06/22/2003673011) Schwobator (talk) 15:07, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
 * "Taiwan's Formosa Plastics Group (...) will open a second blast furnace this summer (...) The first furnace began churning out crude steel in May. The second furnace will boost annual capacity to about 7 million tons." (https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/AC/Formosa-Plastics-steel-venture-in-Vietnam-set-to-double-capacity) --Schwobator (talk) 14:12, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
 * the 2nd blast furnace started trial operations in May 2018. full operation is expected for 2019. "Due to production at the second furnace beginning, the Ha Tinh steel mill is expected to boost the economic growth in Vietnam by 1.27 percentage points in 2018, up from 0.45 percentage points in 2017". source: https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3434995 --Schwobator (talk) 09:39, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
 * "95 percent of the second furnace has entered operations" (http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aeco/201811120019.aspx) --Schwobator (talk) 10:06, 18 December 2018 (UTC)