# Honeywell to provide detergent technologies to Farabi Petrochemical Complex in Yanbu

Honeywell UOP will provide technologies, catalysts, and services for a new complex in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia, to expand Farabi Petrochemicals Company's production of biodegradable detergents. The complex is expected to be completed in 2020.

- Type: Contract
- Announced: 2017-07-01
- Where: Yanbu, Saudi Arabia
- Status: announced
- Capacity: 120,000 metric tons per year of LAB and 246,000 metric tons per year of normal paraffins
- Products: biodegradable detergents, linear alkylbenzene, normal paraffins
- Sectors: [Specialty Chemicals](https://endata.com/sectors/specialty-chemicals.md)

## Companies

- [Honeywell UOP](https://endata.com/companies/657.md)
- [Honeywell UOP](https://endata.com/companies/657.md) (supplier)
- [Farabi Petrochemicals Company](https://endata.com/companies/17340.md) (customer)

## Sources

- [honeywell.com](https://www.honeywell.com/us/en/press/2017/07/honeywell-to-provide-detergent-manufacturing-technologies-to-farabi-petrochemical-complex-in-saudi-arabia), 2017-07-01: "Farabi chose Honeywell UOP technology because it is the most efficient and widely used technology in the world for making detergents."
- [prnewswire.com](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/honeywell-to-provide-detergent-manufacturing-technologies-to-farabi-petrochemical-complex-in-saudi-arabia-300488524.html), 2017-07-17: "Farabi chose Honeywell UOP technology because it is the most efficient and widely used technology in the world for making detergents."

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