Great Orient Chemical(Taicang) Co., Ltd. is wholly-owned by Great Orient Chemical Pte., Ltd, which is jointly invested by Trevose (100% owned by Salim Group) and Farabi Hong Kong(100% owned by Farabi Petrochemicals Group). The total investment amounts USD 150 million and registered capital is USD 56 million, of which Trevose and Farabi Hong Kong share a 50-50 split in shares.

 

Salim Group is a diversified multinational conglomerate, whose businesses cover Food, Agriculture, Real Estate, Infrastructure Construction, Communications, Chemicals and other fields. Salim Group's detergent factories are located in Indonesia as well as Malaysia and Singapore having a combined annual capacity of 460,000 mtpa powder, liquid, and paste detergents. It also has its own sulf(on)ation plant with a capacity of 80,000 mtpa.

 

Farabi Petrochemicals Group, located in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is a global major in Linear Alkyl Benzene (LAB) & N-Paraffin business. Farabi Group Comprises of Farabi Petrochemicals company (FPC), Farabi Yanbu Petrochemicals Company (FYPC), Farabi Downstream company (FDC), HADAF International Energy Company (HADAF) and Farabi Marketing company (FMC), located at Jubail and Yanbu Industrial cities of KSA. Farabi today operates two world scale Normal Paraffin plants, and three world scale LAB plants, in addition to its specialty oils and specialty chemicals plants at Yanbu & Jubail. Farabi is the largest N-Paraffin and the second largest LAB Producer in the world today.

 

GOCT is located at Taicang Port Development Zone, Jiangsu Province. GOCT’s LAB plant employs the most advanced patented linear alkyl benzene production technology in the world. It started production in 2012, with an annual output of 100,000 tons of surfactants (linear alkyl benzene) and related materials (heavy alkyl benzene). GOCT has successfully acquired the certifications of ISO9001:2015, ISO14001:2015, ISO45001:2018 & ISO50001:2018.