Used for films, fibers, containers, packaging, and caps and closures
The production of important chemicals such as propylene oxide, acrylonitrile, cumene, butyraldehyde, and acrylic acid.
Used to produce isopropanol (propan-2-ol), acrylonitrile, propylene oxide, and epichlorohydrin.
As an intermediate in the one-step propane selective oxidation to acrylic acid.
In industry and workshops, propene is used as an alternative fuel to acetylene in Oxy-fuel welding and cutting, brazing and heating of metal for the purpose of bending.
