commonly more typical of an office environment. Clustering of commodity chemical plants Chemical Plants used particularly for commodity chemical and petrochemical manufacture, are located in relatively few manufacturing locations around the world largely due to infrastructural needs. This is less important for speciality or fine chemical batch plants. Not all commodity/petrochemicals are produced in any one location but groups of related materials often are, to induce industrial symbiosis as well as material, energy and utility efficiency and other economies of scale. These manufacturing locations often have business clusters of units called chemical plants that share utilities and large scale infrastructure such as power stations, port facilities, road and rail terminals. In the United Kingdom for example there are four main locations for commodity chemical manufacture: near the River Mersey in Northwest England, on the Humber on the East coast of Yorkshire, in Grangemouth near the Firth of Forth in Scotland and on Teesside as part of the Northeast of England Process Industry Cluster (NEPIC). Approximately 50% of the UK's petrochemicals, which are also commodity chemicals, are produced by the industry cluster companies on Teesside at the mouth of the River Tees on three large chemical parks at Wilton, Billingham and Seal Sands. Corrosion and use of new materials Corrosion in chemical process plants is a major issue that consumes billions of dollars yearly. Electrochemical corrosion of metals is pronounced in chemical process plants due to the presence of acid fumes and other electrolytic interactions. Recently, FRP (Fibre-reinforced plastic) is used as a material of construction. The British standard specification BS4994 is widely used for design and construction of the vessels, tanks, etc. See also Chemical industry Chemical process modeling FRP tanks and vessels - chemical process plant equipment made of FRP BS4994 Electrical equipment in hazardous areas Instrumentation in petrochemical industries Chemical accident Chemical plant cost indexes Fine chemicals Speciality chemicals Petrochemical Northeast of England Process Industry Cluster Institution of Chemical Engineers S-graph Unit operations References Further reading ASME B73 Standards Committee, Chemical Standard Pumps Chemical Plant Chemical process engineering Chemical industry