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| SECTOR | IMPORTS | 5Y/YR | RANK | EXPORTS | 5Y/YR | RANK |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Industrial Machinery | $941.0M | -10.3% | 60 | $10.9M | +7.8% | 102 |
| Automation and Robotics | $245.8M | -8.7% | 65 | $8.98M | +21.5% | 89 |
| Pumps and Valves | $775.1M | -4.8% | 53 | $9.99M | +18.6% | 88 |
| Material Handling | $177.0M | -19.2% | 68 | $10.8M | +4.9% | 74 |
| Food Processing Equipment | $319.2M | -11.5% | 42 | $5.17M | +13.4% | 81 |
| Steel and Metal Products | $2.83B | -2.6% | 65 | $974.7M | -17.5% | 76 |
| Specialty Chemicals | $1.03B | -3.8% | 65 | $36.0M | -5.7% | 101 |
| Plastics and Polymers | $2.37B | +4.1% | 58 | $98.5M | +6.7% | 91 |
| Packaging | $244.4M | +2.6% | 74 | $45.6M | +12.6% | 95 |
| Industrial Textiles | $164.7M | +3.8% | 66 | $417K | +7.4% | 125 |
| Electrical Equipment | $1.17B | -4.0% | 60 | $12.2M | +21.1% | 114 |
| Semiconductors and Industrial Electronics | $295.3M | +6.8% | 66 | $10.8M | +30.4% | 82 |
| Automotive Components | $953.3M | +2.4% | 58 | $9.16M | -1.3% | 100 |
| Aerospace Components | $203.0M | +15.1% | 64 | $6.37M | +4.3% | 95 |
| Medical Devices | $189.4M | -8.9% | 81 | $1.55M | -3.6% | 120 |
| Construction Materials | $452.9M | -3.5% | 64 | $98.8M | +7.4% | 81 |
| HVAC and Industrial Refrigeration | $649.0M | -2.9% | 50 | $1.16M | +6.3% | 111 |
| Power Generation Equipment | $513.2M | -13.7% | 42 | $15.7M | +29.0% | 69 |
| Water Treatment Equipment | $75.5M | -16.8% | 64 | $215K | -2.1% | 120 |
| Mining Equipment | $544.3M | -2.8% | 51 | $21.8M | +15.2% | 81 |
World Bank, World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0)
Patels Airtemp India received a fixed-price order worth $23,663,860 (about ₹226 crore) from Dangote Petroleum Refinery in Nigeria for air-cooled heat exchangers. Execution is planned over 12 months.
Thermax Babcock & Wilcox Energy Solutions, a Thermax subsidiary, won an order worth more than Rs 580 crore for four 400 TPH utility boilers and auxiliaries for Dangote Industries' refinery and petrochemical complex in Nigeria. The order was reported on 26 November 2025.
Amarinth secured an order worth over £1.5 million for four API 675 chemical injection skid packages for the Soku and Gbaran fields in the Niger Delta, which supply feed gas to the Nigeria LNG plant. Delivery is scheduled within 39 weeks.
Valves West Africa, a subsidiary of MT Group, plans to build an industrial valves manufacturing facility in Lekki Free Zone, Lagos, targeting 15,000 valves annually. The plant will serve Nigeria's oil and gas and petrochemical sectors.
TechnipFMC secured a contract from Shell's subsidiary SNEPCo to supply Subsea 2.0 production systems for the Bonga North development offshore Nigeria. The contract is valued between $250 million and $500 million.
TechnipFMC won a subsea contract from Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production for the Bonga North deepwater project off Nigeria, covering subsea trees, manifolds, jumpers and controls. The contract is reported within a $250m to $500m range, and the award is included in fourth-quarter 2024 orders.
BUA Group signed an agreement with Austria's Starlinger for machinery for a packaging facility with capacity of 600 million polypropylene block-bottom bags per year. The deal is Starlinger's largest contract in Africa.
Austria's Starlinger will equip Nigeria-based Bua Group with packaging machinery for a new facility expected to produce 600 million PP block-bottom bags annually. Starlinger calls it its largest contract in Africa and its second-largest globally.
Bell Oil and Gas unveiled a 50,000-tonne integrated OCTG pipe threading, valve assembly and composite pipe plant at the Lekki Free Trade Zone in Lagos, targeting an estimated $100m investment over five years.
BEAMCO Nigeria Limited received a contract from Saipem-Daewoo Joint Venture, the main contractor for NLNG, to supply 17 API pumps and 19 control valves for the NLNG Train-7 project on Bonny Island, reported by the NCDMB in August 2024.
Sidel sold its 1,000th EvoBlow blow-moulder to Nigerian co-packer StrongPack for a new 86,000 bottles-per-hour high-speed PET water line, due to be installed in early 2023. The line includes a Combi SF100 filling and capping solution.
Baker Hughes Valves was awarded an order worth $800,000 by SAIPEM, the EPC contractor, for valves for the Nigeria LNG expansion at Bonny Island. The expansion adds a seventh LNG train, raising capacity from 22 to 30 Mtpa, with start-up expected in 2024.
Tag Energy says it will begin construction of a 3,000 square feet factory in Port Harcourt for designing, producing and repairing valves of all types and sizes, with completion by 2025.
Bell Oil & Gas plans to commission a multi-million-dollar integrated facility on over 15,000 square metres at the Lekki Free Zone, Lagos, for valve assembly, testing and pipe threading. The first phase covers valve assembly and the second piping and machining.
Ampo Poyam Valves and Nigeria Machine Tools agreed to set up a local subsidiary to design and manufacture highly engineered valves for Nigeria's energy industry. The partnership aims to serve West African customers.
India's UFlex commissioned a BOPET film manufacturing plant in Ogun State, Nigeria, with 45,000 TPA capacity and an estimated 200 jobs, serving Western Africa and the US.
PE Energy officially opened a 11,000 m2 Centre of Excellence in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, for valve assembly and actuation, metering, pump and compressor solutions, and process automation integration. The facility aims to boost use of local materials and talent.
PE Energy and Avanceon secured a contract to deliver electrohydraulic wellhead control panels for the offshore facilities of the Kalaekule oilfield on OML 72 in Nigeria. The work will be executed at PE Energy's Port Harcourt Centre of Excellence.
Norway-based TMC Compressors won a contract to supply an offshore topside compressed air system, including three large compressors and a control system, for Shell's Bonga Main FPSO off Nigeria. The contract value was not disclosed.
Bell Oil and Gas broke ground on a $10 million threading and valve assembly facility at the Lekki Free Trade Zone in Lagos, Nigeria. The integrated plant will provide piping, tubular, valve assembly and fabrication services for the oil and gas industry.
StrongPack Ltd. established a greenfield non-alcoholic contract packaging operation in Nigeria, installing four Sidel lines over two years, including a can line, two PET lines and a PET line with Sidel's Actis coating system. The article is dated April 3, 2020.
Serck, part of Unipart Group, won a £1.7 million contract from Dubai-based EPC contractor Global Process Systems to deliver 19 shell and tube heat exchangers for a £152 million expansion project in the Niger Delta for a Nigerian oil company.
Ampo Poyam Valves was selected to design and produce 900 electrically actuated gate valves, some up to 36 inches, for the Dangote refinery under construction in the Lagos region of Nigeria. The contract was placed through EIL (Engineers India Limited).
StrongPack Ltd set up a greenfield non-alcoholic contract packaging operation in Nigeria, installing four Sidel lines over two years, including a can line, two PET lines and one PET line with Sidel's Actis coating system. The announcement was made on 8 October 2019.
Nigerian firm PE Energy broke ground on a $30 million plant in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, for domesticated valve assembly and metering integration, expected to be completed within months.
