Nuberg wins prestigious EPC contract in Middle East

Nuberg, India's leading manufacturer of Chemical Plants, has received a contract worth Rs. 200 crores from ADDAR, an industrial services Saudi group, to construct the first Greenfield Sulfolane plant project in Saudi Arabia.

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Larsen and Toubro (LandT) 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, A.K. 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 Middle East North Africa (MENA) 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, 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 in 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, "The announcement will bring a progressive growth of essential downstream projects to Saudi Arabia. This comprehensive facility will escort enhanced capabilities and capacity to ACC's business in the country and will pave a perfect road to diversify employment opportunities for the people. Nuberg has consistently displayed extensive knowledge and experience across various other EPC projects worldwide and we are confident that the team will bring significant value to the project."

"We endeavour to take 'Make in India' to the world with our engineering and manufacturing expertise in chemical plants and hence, are looking at more such prestigious projects in the near future. We are confident that Nuberg's new RandD Centre in Sweden, slated to start operations by this year will surely catapult Nuberg into the big league of EPC companies and help it bag more valuable EPC projects," he added.

Nuberg Engineering has a proven track record of two decades in EPC projects for chemical plant, operations, maintenance, project management and engineering services, underpinned by their strong local technical capability.