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Metaxylene (MX)

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Metaxylene uses range from surf boards to outboard motors to soda bottles
Metaxylene is used to make soda bottles, fiberglass auto bodies, surf boards, snowmobiles, outboard motors, industrial cooling fans and vaulting poles.

Metaxylene is a feedstock for the manufacture of purified isophthalic acid (PIA), an intermediate for higher quality unsaturated polyesters and a modifier for PET (polyethylene terephthalate) resins. It is separated from the mixed xylene stream that results from the refining of crude oil.
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