• Engineering and maintenance services for petrochemical company SABIC in the UK
• A team of 200 Bilfinger employees to work on the Teesside site

Bilfinger has been chosen as maintenance partner for a €60 million contract by SABIC UK Petrochemicals Limited to carry out a range of services across facilities on its Teesside site. The services will include mechanical, electrical and instrumentation engineering, as well as access, insulation, painting, and asbestos management and removal. The four-year contract has a volume of circa £50 million (€57.8 million) and comes under Bilfinger’s Engineering & Maintenance service line.

Tom Blades, CEO of Bilfinger, said: “Bilfinger has a strong track record of industrial services on such large scale assets. With our Bilfinger Maintenance Concept, we help our customers boost asset efficiency and availability while cutting maintenance costs. SABIC has chosen a reliable partner in Bilfinger with a long history of proven experience to ensure smooth production and short downtimes at one of its largest sites.”

Bilfinger employs 2,500 employees in the UK, with approximately 200 employees dedicated to the engineering and maintenance services for SABIC. Bilfinger’s services for process industry customers include design and build, automated control and electrical systems, installation and commissioning as well as operations and maintenance.

SABIC is a global chemical company, employing over 540 people across two sites in Teesside. Its Wilton site is located on Wilton International, one of the UK’s leading process manufacturing sites.