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In Mexico, ethylene output totaled 68513 metric tons in August, a drop of 3% as compared to July.
Output decline 15% as compared with last year August 2015, when the company's ethylene output totaled 80,842, it said.
Pemex uses the majority of its monomer output for the production of downstream derivatives, including polyethylene grades.
Pemex's propylene output totaled 1,093 mt in August, up 3% from July numbers, it said. The company's output fell 5.5% compared with August 2015, when production totaled 1,157 mt.
Pemex uses the majority of its production of the monomer for downstream derivatives, including the production of acrylonitrile.
