Moeve, Honeywell in LAB collaboration

Moeve and Honeywell are to scale up production technologies for biobased linear alkylbenzene (LAB) using Moeve’s NextLab-R technology, the first LAB produced at industrial scale using renewable raw materials. This will be made available through Honeywell’s licensing platform. LAB is the raw material for making linear alkylbenzene sulfonate (LAS), a surfactant widely used in making detergents.

Moeve, the world’s largest producer of LAB, and Honeywell, which pioneered LAB process licensing in the 1960s, have worked together on energy-efficient LAB production technologies for some 30 years. This includes the Detal-Plus process incorporating Honeywell UOP’s proprietary catalysts that is used in the production of over 70% of global biodegradable detergent production.