LG-Caltex Completes World's Largest Benzene-Toluene Plant.

From: Korea Times (Seoul, Korea) | Date: July 19, 2000 | Copyright information

LG-Caltex Oil has completed the construction of the world's largest production facility for benzene and toluene in Yosu, Cholla-namdo, with commercial production kicking off immediately.

The expanded plant has an annual production capacity of 150,000 tons of benzene and 450,000 tons of toluene, they said.

With the new facility, the complex now has a combined annual capacity to produce 300,000 tons of benzene, 700,000 tons of toluene and 650,000 tons of pa...

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