Products made from petrochemicals include such items as plastics, soaps and detergents, solvents, drugs, fertilizers, pesticides, explosives, synthetic fibres and rubbers, paints, epoxy resins, and flooring and insulating materials.
Key raw materials in the petrochemical industry include products of petroleum oil refining. Petrochemical goods include ethylene, propylene, and benzene; source monomers for synthetic rubbers; and inputs for technical carbon.
Ethylene, propylene, benzene, and xylene are commercially important petrochemicals in the petrochemical industry.