Antwerp: your chemical hub at the heart of Europe.(Regional Profile)

Chemical Week | October 15, 2003 | Copyright

Antwerp Integration showing its results

The Port of Antwerp's five refineries and four steam crackers are the backbone of an impressive petrochemical cluster.

A recent comparison of the six major petrochemical commodities--the so called "big six" ethylene, propylene, butadiene, benzene. toluene, and xylene-reveals that Antwerp, with a cumulative output of 4.793 million m.t./year, can call itself the largest petrochemical commodities center of Europe.

As a result of the last European cracker newbuild being located in Antwerp, the industrial complex ...

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