Alpek S.A.B. de C.V., known as Alpek, is a Mexican chemical manufacturing company headquartered in

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, in Greater Monterrey,

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. It is one of the largest

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and PTA producers in the Americas and the sole producer of

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and

caprolactam Caprolactam (CPL) is an organic compound with the formula (CH2)5C(O)NH. This colourless solid is a lactam (a cyclic amide) of caproic acid. Global demand for this compound is approximately five million tons per year, and the vast majority is use ...

. It is the largest business unit of the industrial conglomerate Alfa, representing 37% of its revenues for 2014. It is also the largest chemical company in Mexico according to Expansion magazine. Alpek reported revenues of $6.5 billion for 2014. It operates facilities in 21 sites in the

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and

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and employs 5,000 people. Alpek was listed on the Mexican Stock Exchange on April 26, 2012, and is a constituent of the IPC, the main benchmark index of the Mexican Stock Exchange.

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