Company Profile

Saudi Kayan Petrochemical Company manufactures and sells chemicals, polymers, and specialty products in Saudi Arabia and internationally. The company offers ethylene for use as a feed stock for polyethylene and ethylene glycol; propylene for use as a feed stock for polypropylene and cumene; benzene for use as a feed stock for cumene plant; polypropylene for automotive, electric appliances, hot water pipe system fibers, and film wraps; and high- and low-density polyethylene for automotive gasoline tanks, pipes, bottles, and containers. It also provides ethylene oxide for use as a feed stock to ethylene glycols, polycarbonates, and ethanolamines; monoethylene glycol for use in polyester fibers, PET soft drinks package, antifreeze and coolants, heat transfer fluids, and chemical intermediates; diethylene glycol used in unsaturated polyester resins, polyurethanes and plasticizers, grinding aids, gas dehydration, printing ink, and paint pigments; and triethylene glycol for the dehydration of industrial gases and solvents, and plasticizers. The company offers cumene and phenol used as a feed stock to phenol and bisphenol-A plants; acetone used in solvents, and BPA and methyl methacrylate manufacturing; bisphenol A for use in polycarbonates and epoxy resins; and polycarbonate for use in optical media, construction and housing, automotive, aircraft, electronic components, lenses, toys, hobby items, and medical appliances; monoethanolamine, diethanolamine, and triethanolamine used in gas sweetening, detergent and specialty cleaning formulations, concrete mixtures, flexible urethane foam catalysts, pharmaceuticals, personal care products, and herbicides; ethoxylates for the detergent, paint, and leather industries; N-butanol for use in solvents, plasticizers, and coatings; iso-butanol used in direct solvents, chemical intermediates, and additives; and natural detergent alcohol for use in detergents. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is based in Jubail, Saudi Arabia.