Honeywell UOP

Honeywell UOP, formerly known as UOP LLC and, before that, Universal Oil Products, is an American company that develops and delivers technology for petroleum refining, gas processing, petrochemical production and other manufacturing industries. It was founded in 1914 as the National Hydrocarbon Company to exploit the patents of the inventors Jesse Dubbs and his son Carbon Petroleum Dubbs on thermal cracking, and it took the name Universal Oil Products in 1919. In 1931 a consortium of oil firms bought it, and when the company went public in 1959 the income supported grants of the American Chemical Society. It later passed to The Signal Companies, AlliedSignal and Honeywell, which took full ownership in 2005. Its Riverside research laboratory in McCook, Illinois, produced thousands of patents, and Vladimir Haensel developed the platforming process there.