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Yugoslavia Chemicals
Production of chemical fertilizers, rubber, plastics,
ammonia, liquefied gas, coke, and petroleum byproducts was vital
to Yugoslav self-sufficiency in the 1980s. The large
petrochemical and oil-refining facility built by Dow Chemical on
the north Adriatic island of Krk became the chief Yugoslav
petroleum processing plant. Although Yugoslavia had little
prospect of independence from foreign oil suppliers, the Krk
plant enhanced its independence at the petrochemical processing
stage. Other major petrochemical and chemical facilities included
the Chemical Industry at Pancevo, the Petroleum Industry of
Zagreb, and the Chemical Production Industry at Prahovo (eastern
Serbia). The main customers for Yugoslav chemicals and
petrochemicals in the late 1980s were the Soviet Union and
Eastern Europe, with some sales to Britain, Italy, France,
Belgium, Greece, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and the United
States.
Data as of December 1990
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