ORTHOXYLENE.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)

Chemical Market Reporter, June, 2001

ORTHOXYLENE June 18,2001 PRODUCER CAPACITY [*] Chevron Phillips Chemical, Guayama, PR. 150 ExxonMobil, Baytown, Tex. 280 ExxonMobil, Chalmette, La. 155 Koch Industries, Corpus Christi, Tex. 270 Lyondell-Citgo Refining, Houston, Tex.

270 Total 1,125 (*.)Millions of pounds of orthoxylene (OX) per year. All producers have captive supplies of mixed xylenes. Large quantities of unisolated OX in mixed xylene streams are used in gasoline or isomerized to paraxylene. ExxonMobil is the only US producer to use OX captively for phthalic an hydride production. Exxon and Mobil merged in 1999 to form a new entity,...

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