Saudi Organometallic Chemicals Company (SOCC), a joint venture of Sabic affiliate, Specialty Chem and Albemarle Netherlands, has awarded an engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) services contract to Samsung Engineering.

Samsung will provide EPC services for the SOCC Aluminum Alkyls manufacturing facility in Jubail, Saudi Arabia.

“With Samsung’s history, SOCC is assured of a quality design and construction effort for this facility that will supply a strategic product supporting the polyolefin industry of the region,” stated Al Saurage, SOCC executive general manager.

Samsung will immediately begin the detailed engineering in Seoul, Korea. The manufacturing facility will be constructed in Jubail Industrial City, Saudi Arabia, at the Specialty Chem site, with a mechanical completion date projected for Q3 2012.

The SOCC facility will initially manufacture 6,000 metric tonnes/year of Tri Ethyl Aluminum, the key co-catalyst used in polyolefin production. This product is currently supplied to the region from Albemarle’s facilities in Europe, Asia, and North America and will be supplied from the SOCC plant to regional customers upon plant startup.-TradeArabia News Service