Taipei - Shin-kong Synthetic Fibers Corp. is scheduled to begin operations at several new engineering plastics production lines in Taiwan in the first quarter of 2018, the Taipei Times reported.

The new engineering plastics lines "would help boost the company's annual production capacity from 50,000 tons now to 110,000 tons next year," said the report citing Shinkong Synthetic Fibers President Samson Luo.

In addition, the company is considering increasing engineering plastics capacity in the next three years at its facility in Thailand.  No other details were given.