Sunoco - Frankford Plant (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) | production, petrochemical industry

USA / New Jersey / Pennsauken / Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 production, petrochemical industry
Sunoco, Inc.
Formerly Allied Signal) Formerly Barrett's Chemical

The Frankford plant currently manufactures more than 1 billion pounds of phenol, 620 million pounds of acetone and 70 million pounds of alpha-methylstyrene, making it the largest producer of the basic chemicals in North America and one of the two largest in the world.

Phenol is the main building block chemical in the production of nylon and is also used to make pharmaceuticals, resins, and polycarbonates. Acetone is used to make acrylic sheet, printing inks, paints and varnishes.

Margaret and Bermuda Streets, Philadelphia, PA 19137

www.sunocochemicals.com/products/frankfordf.htm
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunoco
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Coordinates:   40°0'20"N   75°4'17"W

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