Colombia: petrochemical capacity share by product

In 2022, the total installed production capacity of Colombia's chemical industry amounted to 1.4 billion metric tons per year. Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) was the product with the largest installed capacity in the country's petrochemical sector, representing 36.8 percent of the total. This was followed by polypropylene, which represented 36.63 percent of the total installed petrochemical production capacity that year.

Installed petrochemical production capacity distribution in Colombia in 2022, by product category

Characteristic	Share of total installed petrochemical production capacity
Polyvinyl chloride (PVC)	36.8%
Polypropylene	36.6%
Polystyrene	8.1%
Low density polyethylene	4.8%
Unsaturated polyester resins	4.8%
Polyethylene terephthalate (rPET)	4.4%
Other plastic resins*	4.5%

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Release date

November 2023

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Region

Colombia, LAC

Survey time period

2022

Supplementary notes

*Polyols, polyethers, polyurethane, polycaprolactone, and phenolic resins.

For this statistic, the values reported by the source have been converted into percentages and rounded.

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