Nuberg, India's leading EPC company for Chemical Plants, has received a contract worth Rs200 crore from ADDAR, an industrial services Saudi group, to construct Saudi's first Greenfield Sulfolane plant project in Saudi Arabia.
Larsen & Toubro (L&T) is the engineering partner and GTC Technologies, from the US is the technology partner for the chemical plant project. With this win, the company's expertise in building chemical plants is now on a firm global footing as this will be its seventh project overseas in one year.
Commenting on the contract win, AK Tyagi, MD, Nuberg Engineering said, "Saudi Arabia is a core country for our EPC business and ADDAR our key customer. This EPC contract represents another significant step in building our capability and consolidating our position as a major EPC company of Indian origin in the MENA (Middle East North Africa) and Gulf region.
"This EPC project for a specialty chemical plant illustrates our strategy in action and is an ideal opportunity to support our longer-term competitive edge in Saudi Arabia."
Located in Jubail industrial city, the largest industrial city in the Middle East and home to many of the world's biggest chemical and petrochemical plants, the facility will locally manufacture Sulfolane, an industrial solvent used for extractive distillation and reaction, with other specialty chemical products for downstream and petrochemical / oil and energy industry. With this new contract under its belt, Nuberg is now all set to rapidly ramp up its operations by expanding its employee base
The project is scheduled to commence during the first quarter of 2017. Nuberg will manufacture some of the critical equipment to be installed in the plant at its state-of-the- art facility at Gujarat and plans to deploy around 100 employees including engineers at the project site.
Elaborating on the association with Nuberg, Dr. Khalil Ibrahim Ibn Salamah, MD, ADDAR Group said, Dr. Ibrahim Ibn Salamah, Chairman ADDAR Chemicals Company "ACC" said, "I am very delighted with this announcement as it will bring a progressive growth of essential downstream projects to Saudi Arabia.
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