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There are 4 naphtha crackers (NC 3, NC 4, NC 5, and NC 6) in Taiwan, NC 3 and NC 4 are located in petrochemical industrial area of Lin-Yuan, Kaohsiung.
Sino-Japan Co., Ltd. is also situated in Lin-Yuan, and belongs to down steam of NC 3 and NC 4.

The naphtha oil refined from crude petroleum oil is cracked into petrochemicals such as ethylene, propylene, butadiene, benzene, toluene, xylene and so on. These petrochemicals are then reacted to form ethylene oxide, ethylene glycol, propylene oxide.

Alkylphenol, fatty alcohol, fatty acid, and fatty amine are synthesized with ethylene oxide and propylene oxide to form nonionic surfactants. Moreover, are reacted by sulfate, sufonate, phosphate to form anionic surfactants.