外資與國家資本之相依共存：退輔會塑膠工廠之設立與臺灣聚合化學品公司

The Interdependency of FDI Enterprise and SOE in Taiwan: USIFE and the Founding ofVeterans Plastics Works

在1968年臺灣聚合化學品工業股份有限公司開始大量生產聚乙烯塑膠後，國內PE塑膠加工廠即如雨後春筍般林立。國軍退除役官兵輔導委員會塑膠工廠，即是在此一熱潮中，於1972年設立。在塑膠工廠的建廠過程中，臺聚公司扮演極積極且重要角色。臺聚不但提供塑膠工廠生產品之規劃、生產線之建構技術，最後甚至邀請塑膠工廠加入其獨家生產高密度聚乙烯之子公司，聯聚公司之投資。本文認為，臺聚公司可能藉此建構與退輔會之連結關係，藉由退輔會當時在政界之力量，為臺聚在塑膠市場中之獨佔利益代言。

Veterans Plastics Works (VPW) was found in 1972, a golden era for Taiwan's plastics industry. Rising profit from processing plastic products pushed new plants to be established one by one, especially after USI Far East Corporation (USIFE), a foreigner directly invested corporation which produced polyethylene materials for domestic processing use, found in 1968. During VPW's founding, USIFE not only rendered technological assistance to help this junior state-owned processing works enter industry and market related, but also invited it to join their profit-making joint-investment project in monopolistic producing of high-density polyethylene. This article finds, the main motivation for USIFE to choose to play such an important role in VPW's founding, was aimed at building a channel through VPW to connect to the authorities, so as to affect government's decision making, for USIFE's benefit.