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Updated Thursday, January 17, 2008 0:00 am TWN, By Greg McCann, Special to The China Post



	An 8.5-ton trunk of kauri pine is displayed in the lobby of the museum. (By Greg McCann, Special to The China Post) More Photos (2)

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Formosa Plastics Group Museum tells story of one of Taiwan’s most prominent companies

At first, bags of pre-processed PVC were hauled by oxcart to loading stations. However, there were few customers—in Taiwan or abroad—for such a product. Ever the visionary, the young chairman started up a second company—Nanya Plastics—which processed the PVC into a more readily useable form.

If you’ve ever wondered just where plastic comes from and how it ends up in the form of your toothbrush, your hairbrush or your laptop computer, a visit to this museum will answer, quite literally, all of your questions.

The fifth floor takes visitors on trips to a coalmine shaft and the bottom of an oil drill to peer into the mantle of the Earth. Visitors can see where the necessary elements come from, what sorts of machines they are melted by, and what sorts of processors they pass through to pop out as the multitude of practical products that we use every day.

Up on the fifth floor, guests walk on a glass floor that looks down on a huge scale model of Formosa Plastics Group’s new Yunlin County factory. Coal from Australia and oil from the Middle East arrive at this coastal factory, which is actually a new slice of Earth reclaimed from the sea, made by a massive landfill. An enormous underground pipeline stretching from this Yunlin factory to Formosa Plastics’ Linkou plant is presently under construction.

At the end of the day, a visit to this relatively new museum will leave you with a clear sense of where our beloved plastic comes from and how it is made. A trip here will also educate you on the beginnings and the rise of one of Taiwan’s richest and boldest businessmen. And any expatriate Kiwis feeling a little homesick are in for an unexpected treat with the kauri pine exhibits and the North Island rainforest room.

Contact:

Address: No. 259, Wunhua 1st Road, Kweishan Township, Taoyuan County 33302

Telephone Number of Information Desk:

(03) 211-8800, ext. 3391

Fax: (03) 211-8899

http:// www.fpgmuseum.com.tw

E-mail: museum@mail.cgu.edu.tw

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