Since then the Western-European countries and Japan began to develop their organic petrochemical industry faster, using primarily the experience and technology of American companies but soon became independent and equal partners in further development. During the past twenty-five years in Western Europe a great number of plants for the production of the most fundamental petrochemical base, ethylene, have been built.
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