The Petrochemical Complex at Khor al-Zubair in Basra has stopped production due to a shortage of buyers. The plant is reported to have been working for nearly a month filling up inventories of two primary products - chlorine and polymers. However, Government ministries who preferred imports to locally produced chlorine could be the major factor responsible for the lack of demand.
Iraq had plans to become one of the world's biggest producers of petrochemicals and the products of the complex in Basra were of a high value and quality
26-May-06 
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