Petrochemical Plant in SW Shifts Focus to Value-Added Products

Bu-Ali Sina Petrochemical Company in Mahshahr, Khuzestan Province, is moving ahead with two projects to produce higher value-added products, the managing director said.
The projects include construction of a paraxylene production unit, and sweetening light naphtha to produce raffinate and liquefied petroleum gas, the Oil Ministry news agency Shana reported Seyed Mohammad Ahmadzadeh as saying.
Paraxylene is an aromatic hydrocarbon, widely used as feedstock to produce industrial chemicals.