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title: "ZAWYA-PROJECTS: Saudi's SABIC forecasts up to $4bln investments in 2026"
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description: "Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) forecasts a capital investment of $3.5 to $4 billion in 2026, including expenditures for growth projects. The company has made Final Investment Decisions on an ethylene oxide catalyst plant in Saudi Arabia and a thermoplastics compounding plant in China. SABIC is expanding its capacity for specialty polymers to meet demand for high-performance printed circuit boards. The SABIC Fujian petrochemical complex in China is 95.3% complete, and a new MTBE project in Saudi Arabia has an annual capacity of 1 million tonnes."
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# ZAWYA-PROJECTS: Saudi's SABIC forecasts up to $4bln investments in 2026

**Staff Writer**

Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) has forecast a capital investment of $3.5 to $4 billion in 2026.

The amount includes capital expenditure and capital injections into growth projects, the company said in its 2025 financial statement on Wednesday, without providing any project details.

SABIC made Final Investment Decisions (FID) on two projects: an ethylene oxide catalyst plant in Saudi Arabia and a wholly owned engineering thermoplastics compounding plant in China.

The company, which is majority owned by Saudi Aramco, announced an expansion of its capacity to produce polyphenylene-ether-based specialty polymers. This expansion will allow it to meet the rapidly growing demand for high-performance printed circuit boards in data centres serving artificial-intelligence and 5G applications.

The construction project for the SABIC Fujian petrochemical complex in China remained on track, reaching 95.3 percent completion.

Additionally, SABIC launched a new Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether (MTBE) project in Saudi Arabia with an annual capacity of 1 million tonnes, the statement said.

(Editing by Anoop Menon) (anoop.menon@lseg.com)

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