Fluor Strengthens Market Position Through Key Alliances and Portfolio Moves

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The American industrial services firm Fluor Corporation is cementing its role in a major U.S. rare earths initiative while simultaneously wrapping up a significant overseas project. These strategic developments come as the company prepares to report its full-year financial results.

Management, led by CEO Jim Breuer, is scheduled to detail the financial performance for the 2025 fiscal year during the quarterly earnings presentation on February 17, 2026. The company’s operational foundation remains solid, with a reported backlog of $28.2 billion as of the third quarter of 2025.

A Strategic Foothold in Critical Minerals

In a move highlighting its expanding footprint in the critical minerals sector, Fluor has been selected by USA Rare Earth as the engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPCM) partner. This partnership, announced January 23, 2026, is for the definitive feasibility study of the Round Top project in Texas. The Texas deposit is notable for containing 15 of the 17 recognized rare earth elements, which are vital for advanced technology applications. Fluor’s technical expertise will be directed toward paving the way for planned commercial production by late 2028, thereby bolstering domestic supply chains for these essential technology metals.

International Milestone Achieved and Non-Core Divestments

Separately, Fluor recently announced a major operational completion in China. On January 8, 2026, the company confirmed the mechanical completion of the new BASF integrated site in Zhanjiang. This project represents one of the largest foreign investments in China’s chemical industry and involved over 75 million work hours to execute.

Concurrently, Fluor is actively progressing its strategy to divest non-core holdings. In late December 2025, the company agreed to sell its stake in the Zhuhai shipyard site in China for approximately $122 million. Furthermore, a complete exit from its investment in NuScale Power is anticipated in the first half of 2026. This follows a partial sale in late 2025 that generated $605 million in proceeds.