Saudi Arabia-based United Carton Industries Co (UCIC) has completed the acquisition of Gulf Paper Manufacturing Co, whose Dubai mill produces fluting, testliner and tissue paper.

Soosan Industries signed a contract with NAWAH Energy to perform planned preventive maintenance on turbines, turbine valves and generators at Barakah nuclear units 1 to 4 through 2028, worth KRW 54.49 billion.

ADNOC Gas Processing selected Petrofac Emirates for an EPC contract worth about $700 million to build a new gas compressor plant with three compressor trains at the Habshan Complex in Abu Dhabi.

UAE-based packaging maker Hotpack has signed an agreement with Maxbyte to digitise its 15 factories in the UAE and other countries. The first wave will cover three plants, with the full transformation planned over three to five years.

VBG Intech completed a three-year technical services agreement with Oscar Oilfields to supply angle control valves for ADNOC's offshore Upper Zakum field, under a long-term price agreement.

Amarinth has won an order from ADNOC for two API 685 OH2 horizontal and three VS4 vertical magnetic drive pumps for the Ruwais NGL trains 1 and 2 in the UAE. The pumps are needed on a 28-week delivery schedule for an ADIP tank upgrade.

ALEC Engineering and Contracting, part of Investment Corporation of Dubai, signed a share purchase agreement to acquire 100% of TARGET Engineering Construction Company, including its 11,000 workforce, marine vessels and fabrication facilities. The combined group would have a joint turnover of nearly US$2 billion.

KEZAD Group signed a 50-year land lease with Star Paper Mill for a AED 200 million facility on a 59,000 square metre site in Abu Dhabi to make recycled kraft paper jumbo reels, in collaboration with RC Paper Machines.

Universal Carton Industries is investing US$15 million (AED 55 million) to expand its corrugated box production in Ras Al Khaimah Economic Zone, tripling capacity to 100,000 tons per year, with completion scheduled for 2023.

ADNOC joint venture Borouge signed a memorandum of understanding with Abu Dhabi Medical Devices Company (ADMD) to supply polyolefin materials for medical devices and pharma packaging in Abu Dhabi.

Sidel supplied and installed a complete PET bottling line at Mai Dubai, filling 86,000 bottles per hour in three formats, described as the fastest single line in the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

Toray Industries received a reverse osmosis membrane order for the Taweelah desalination plant in the UAE, which will be the world's largest RO desalination facility when commissioned in the second half of 2022.

WABAG secured an order worth about USD 100 million for engineering and procurement on the 120 MIGD Hassyan seawater reverse osmosis plant in Dubai, ordered by Green EPC, the prime contractor for Utico FZC. The plant is planned for phased commissioning by March 2024.

TechnipFMC, through Gulf Automation Services and Oilfield Supplies, signed a ten-year framework agreement with ADNOC for wellheads, trees and associated services. It plans to expand manufacturing, assembly and test capabilities in Abu Dhabi. The article is dated December 8, 2021.

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company has awarded TechnipFMC its largest-ever surface technologies contract, a 10-year framework agreement for wellheads, trees and associated services. TechnipFMC will expand in-country manufacturing, assembly and test capabilities in Abu Dhabi.

TechnipFMC, through Gulf Automation Services and Oilfield Supplies, was awarded a 10-year framework agreement by Abu Dhabi National Oil Company for wellheads, trees and associated services. TechnipFMC will expand manufacturing, assembly and test capacity in Abu Dhabi. The company describes it as a major contract over $1 billion.

Borouge awarded engineering, procurement and construction contracts for Borouge 4, a $6.2 billion expansion of its Ruwais complex, to Al Asab General Transport and Contracting and to Technip Energies with Target Engineering.

ADNOC and Borealis signed a final investment agreement worth USD 6.2 billion to build Borouge 4, a polyethylene expansion at the Ruwais complex in the UAE. It will produce 1.4 million tons of polyethylene per year, including a 1.5 million ton ethane cracker.

ADNOC signed framework engineering agreements worth $204 million with multiple international engineering contractors in the second phase of its engineering awards. The report is dated 19 October 2021.

valveIT, through its Sharjah office Fluid Tech FZE, was approved as a valve manufacturer for Etihad Water & Electricity Authority (FEWA) in the UAE, reported on September 2, 2021.

Cavotec received two turnkey contracts from Amana Contracting to supply sub-freezing DX-Boost pre-conditioned air systems for hangars at Abu Dhabi and Muscat airports.

Al Bayader International secured medium-term financing from HSBC to build a 450,000 sq ft food packaging industrial complex in Sharjah's Al Sajaa Industrial City, expected to be completed in 2023 and quadruple capacity to over 120,000 tonnes.

Wozair Dubai has been awarded contracts by Lamprell Energy to supply pneumatic, electric and shut-off fire dampers for two jack-up drilling rigs being built for Saudi Arabia. The first order was received in November 2020 and a second in May 2021.

Amarinth won a US$1 million order to supply 14 API 610 VS4 vertical pumps for ADNOC's Ruwais Refinery East in the UAE. The order was secured through the contractor ISCCO and Amarinth's UAE agent Nama Development Enterprises.

India's Forpack Industries signed an MoU with Sharjah's SAIF Zone to establish its first UAE headquarters by leasing four warehouses in the U2 area. The company plans AED 10 million in capital investment and makes packaging, stretch film and cardboard products.

Amarinth completed an order to overhaul and fit new mechanical seals to ten API 610 VS4 pumps for ADNOC's upgraded Bab onshore field, working with EPC contractor Archirodon. The work was completed within a 27-week fast-track schedule.

Al Bayader International unveiled its expanded plant in Jebel Ali Free Zone, Dubai, doubling its food packaging capacity to 18,000 tonnes per annum. The expansion is part of an AED200 million investment, taking total capacity across its UAE and Qatar sites to 31,000 tonnes.

Agthia Group's shareholders approved a merger with Al Foah Company, the largest date processing and packaging company, in exchange for mandatory convertible instruments worth $122.5 million issued by Agthia.

Swisslog completed a fully automated storage and retrieval system for Mai Dubai's bottled water operations in Dubai, under an order valued at over EUR 20 million. The system includes a six-aisle high-bay raw materials warehouse and a finished-goods warehouse with 17,560 pallet locations.

Ampo Poyam Valves is supplying the first 20 API6A class 10000 valves for ADNOC's Bab gas compression project in Abu Dhabi, to be integrated into gas production and injection systems. The article is dated 5 August 2020 and no value was given.

Amarinth has received a $1 million order from NAMA for 14 API 610 VS4 pumps with Plan 53B seal support systems for the ADNOC Ruwais East Refinery in the UAE. The pumps are to be delivered in a split schedule.

Shrinath Flexipack agreed to build its first Middle East factory on a greenfield site in KIZAD Polymers Park, Abu Dhabi, with an AED 55 million investment, producing 30,000 tonnes of plastics per year.

Energy Recovery was awarded USD 23.5 million to supply PX Pressure Exchanger devices and equipment to desalination projects in the Middle East and North Africa, including the largest contract in its history for the Taweelah SWRO plant near Abu Dhabi. Shipments run from Q1 2020 through the first half of 2021.

Samsung C&T and Marubeni Corporation were awarded the 2,400 MW Fujairah F3 combined cycle power plant contract by the Emirates Water and Electricity Company, valued at about 1.15 trillion won, with construction expected to finish in April 2023.

Sapura Energy and partner Petrofac Emirates were awarded an offshore EPC contract by ADNOC for the Dalma Gas Development Project, covering platforms and 189 km of subsea pipelines over about 30 months. It is Sapura's first contract in Abu Dhabi.

ARMATURY Group won a three-year framework contract to supply valves to Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), concluded in February 2020. The company will deliver 1,600 valves in 2020 with a total value of more than 100 million Czech crowns.

Syntegon Technology supplied oral solid dosage manufacturing equipment, including granulation, tableting, coating and capsule filling machines, to Pharmax Pharmaceuticals for its new factory in Dubai. The plant has an annual capacity of over 200 million tablet and capsule dosage forms.

Flowserve signed an agreement to provide the main pumps for the Taweelah sea water reverse osmosis desalination plant near Abu Dhabi, which will be the largest SWRO project in the world with capacity of 909,200 cubic meters of water per day.

Flowserve signed agreements to provide more than 135 main pumps for the Taweelah plant near Abu Dhabi, UAE, and the Rabigh-3 plant in Saudi Arabia. Taweelah will be the largest SWRO plant in the world.

ANDRITZ, in a consortium with STRABAG, signed a contract with Dubai Electricity and Water Authority to supply and commission the electro- and hydro-mechanical equipment for the 250 MW Hatta Pumped Storage Power Plant, with startup expected in Q1 2024. The contract value exceeds 100 million euros.

Siemens was awarded a turnkey contract by TRANSCO to supply, install and hand over a 400/220/33-kV high-voltage grid substation at Mirfa, Abu Dhabi, connecting the new Mirfa Power Plant to the grid.

Ansaldo Energia has won a 10-year full-scope service contract to maintain the 947-MW Taweelah New B Extension plant near Abu Dhabi. The deal was signed with Taweelah Asia Power Co. and includes maintenance, parts supply, remote monitoring and repairs.

The Emirates Water and Electricity Co. and ACWA Power signed a water purchase agreement to fund construction of a seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant at the Taweelah Power and Water Complex. The $900 million plant is expected to be completed by 2022.

Vallourec was awarded a five-year contract, with a possible two-year extension, by Abu Dhabi National Oil Company to supply tubing and casing worth USD 900 million plus mill-to-rig services. Deliveries from Vallourec mills in Europe, South America and China are expected to start in second half of 2020.

Aker Solutions secured a NOK 700 million (about $78.2 million) order from ADNOC to deliver subsea umbilicals for the Dalma gas development offshore the UAE. The work will be designed and manufactured at Aker's Mobile, Alabama facility and finish in Q1 2021.

Elgi Gulf FZE, a wholly owned UAE subsidiary of Elgi Equipments, proposed to invest 147,000 UAE dirhams for a 49% stake in a new UAE joint venture with a local Emirati partner to sell air compressors in the region.

Abu Dhabi's Sanad Aerotech, a Mubadala subsidiary, signed a $6.5 billion contract with Rolls-Royce to maintain, repair and overhaul Trent 700 engines for Airbus A330 jets over nine years. Sanad will service 75 engines a year, up from 25.

Gardner Denver's CompAir brand supplied a complete compressed air system to Hyundai Heavy Industries for the Nasr Full Field Development Project, part of an EPC contract with Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company in the Al-Nasr oil field.

Amarinth received a USD 600,000 order through agent NAMA for eight vertical API 610 VS4 drain sump pumps for ADNOC's offshore Umm Shaif Super Complex in the UAE.

VBG Intech has been awarded the control valve packages for general and severe service applications for ADNOC Onshore's Bab Integrated Facilities Project in Abu Dhabi. The project aims to raise Bab field production capacity from 420,000 to 450,000 barrels of oil per day by 2020.