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ICAL PROFILE. 

PARAXYLENE August 7,1989 

SUPPLY 

PRODUCER CAPACITY* 

Amoco, Decatur, Ala 1,077 

Amoco, Texas City, Tex 1,200 

Chevron, Pascagoula, Miss 525 

Exxon, Baytown, Tex 750 

Koch, Corpus Christ!, Tex 450 

Lyondell, Houston, Tex 350 

Mobil, Chalmette, La 140 

Phillips, Guayama, P.R 600 

Total 5,742 

'Millions of pounds annually. Chevron added 25 million pounds of capacity at the 

beginning of this year. Phillips expanded from 470 million pounds in June 1988. Koch 

will expand its plant to one billion pounds by late 1991 or 1992. Kemtec Petrochemical plans lo start up a 400-million-pound plant in East Montreal, Quebec, this quarter. 

The facility is incorporating large portions of a unit moved there from Puerto Rico. 

Profile last published 9/1/86; this revision, 8/7/89. 

DEMAND 

1988: 5,600 million pounds; 1989: 5,800 million pounds; 1993: 7,000 million 

pounds. (Includes exports, but not impons, which totaled 220 million pounds last 

year.) 

GROWTH 

Historical (1979-1988): 3.3 percent per year; future: 4.5 percent per year 

through 1993. 

PRICE 

Historical (1973-1989): High, 33c. per pound, bulk, dlvd.; low, 6V4C. per 

pound, bulk, frt. equald.; Current: 29V2C. per pound, tanks, dlvd. 

USES \bo 

QinietjTyl terephthalate and terephthalic acid, B5.percent; exports, 15 percent. 

(Domestically, negligible amounts are used in solvents, coafings and pesticides.) 

STRENGTH 

Very strong demand from paraxylene's chief end productj)ushed capacity 

utjjillfejges To~977)ercent lasf year, and haTaTlOwea'priceslo rise 12 cents 

per pound from the begmnincjTdTiast year. 

WEAKNESS 

Pronounced softening in the mixed xylenes market bodes iff for final-quarter 

paraxylene contracts. 

OUTLOOK 

Paraxylene will continue to enjoy the strength of DMT-PTA markets. Traditional importers of PET, DMT-PTA and paraxylene arejnJhejxocess oLbuilding 

their own plants and back-integrating. wRIch couidjTtean_sx>m-^ 

rial will back up in.the US irYthe early 1990>. 

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Biotechnology 

Sorptive separation techniques, i 

matography on solid supports, appr. 

scheme dealing with fermentation • 

this book* is to place these differcn 

that selection of the appropriate tc< 

made. Emphasis has been placed on 

trial applications, but the author h 

reader to pursue selectivity and kin< 

A brief sketch of the nature of the I 

might be involved in isolating the de 

and subsequent chapters cover ad*-

column chromatography procedure 

techniques is often regarded as strict 

bodies, but closer examination indica • 

is useful in isolating biochemical pi 

builds on what has gone before by oV 

specificity associated with exchange 

the use of sorptive materials to create 

of two or more solutes. 

•SEPARATION AND PURIFICATION 7 

Dechow. Cloth. 6 Vi by 9 W inches 490 p*i" 

Park Ridge, N.J. 07656 172.00. 

Biotech In Japai 

Although many books have been wril > 

language literature providinginform.il 

nology is scant. This book* is an attri 

analysis of the Japanese biofx-hnoloft, 

working with the new lechrK-locr 

As the Japanese strtcf t_>:« l-M(r tV 

strategic alliances with the-*, cocnpaiik 

such alliances, identifying instances of y 

and licensing agreements involving Jap 

last few years. 

The authors point out that an underst. 

industry does not assure an understandin 

countries are vastly different. Thus, in fl 

roles of government, industry acadcnn. 

strengths and weaknesses of each of the* 

described. The book concludes with a clu. 

in the US and in Japan. 

•BIOTECHNOLOGY JAPAN. By Mark D Dil«r 

pages. McGraw-Hill Book Company, 11 West 1' 

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