The present invention provides a method for producing a formed article from a dope comprising a polyphosphoric acid solvent and a polymer soluble in polyphosphoric acid, which includes using a production apparatus containing an apparatus for stirring and uniformly dispersing or homogenizing a dope and a pump apparatus for delivering the uniformly dispersed or homogeneous dope, wherein at least one of the apparatus and the pump apparatus has a part that comes into contact with the dope. According to the present invention, maintenance frequency of production facility due to the corrosion and elution of metal in a recovered solvent can be reduced, which in turn decreases the production cost.