By Providence Ayanfeoluwa
Dangote Petroleum Refinery has announced plans to expand beyond crude processing into a fully integrated industrial hub, unveiling five major projects that aim to transform Africa’s manufacturing landscape.
The project encompasses the ambitious expansion plan of a 400,000-tonne Linear Alkaline Benzene (LAB) plant to support detergent manufacturing across the continent.
Addressing journalists during a tour of the refinery, Managing Director/Chief Executive, David Bird, said that such dependency is about to change.
Bird pointed out that Africa currently imports 100 percent of its detergent and cleaning agent ingredients.
To address this, he said: “Africa imports 100 percent of its detergent and cleaning agent ingredients, it is called surfactant, that’s what makes the bubbles in detergent, that’s called LAB – linear alkaline benzene.
“And so we will be building a 400,000 tonne LAB plant in order to ensure that Africa and the region no longer have to
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