Abundia Global Impact Group has completed its acquisition of RPD Technologies Americas, adding a project development business to its operations.
RPD will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary, with its revenue included in Abundia's second-quarter financial statements. The business will retain its existing team, customer relationships and project pipeline.
Founded in 2019, RPD designs, builds and operates pilot plants and provides consulting services for technology development in refining, petrochemicals and renewables. Its work spans project inception and design, commissioning and start-up, experimental operations, and scale-up analysis and modelling.
RPD has about 20 employees and engineers. The team brings expertise in operations, engineering, process safety, quality control and technical mechanics, with more than 100 years of combined chemical engineering scale-up experience.
For Abundia, the deal advances its strategy to bring more development work in-house as it builds a vertically integrated model for turning biomass and plastic waste into fuels and chemical feedstocks. Formerly Houston American Energy, the company is developing commercial-scale facilities to process waste plastics and biomass into drop-in fuels and low-carbon feedstocks.
Its flagship project is at Cedar Port on the US Gulf Coast, a location that provides access to feedstock supply chains, upgrading partners and end markets.
Management view
The acquisition also gives Abundia an established services business with current customers, rather than relying solely on longer-term returns from its own development projects. It creates an immediate revenue stream and broadens the company's operations.
"We've entered the second quarter with strong momentum led by the acquisition of RPD, fulfilling another meaningful milestone for Abundia," said Ed Gillespie, chief executive officer of Abundia Global Impact Group. "This strategic execution underscores our disciplined approach to high value M&A opportunities that enhance our business's ability to operate across the waste-to-value chain as a fully integrated producer of renewable products. RPD's services business creates diversification within Abundia's capabilities and complements the renewable products business. In parallel, we gain immediate top line growth from a revenue generating business with an established pipeline of future business. Over time, we believe RPD's long-term opportunities will grow as we relocate its operations to the Innovation Centre, currently under construction and specifically designed to cater to larger projects, positioning RPD for expansion."
Part of the rationale for the transaction is RPD's experience in scaling industrial processes in petrochemicals and renewable energy, which is expected to support the next engineering phase of Abundia's biomass technology.
"Importantly, by converging RPD's capabilities and its highly skilled team with Abundia's waste-to-value project, we unlock a valuable cog in our current development cycle that strengthens our vertical integration strategy. Of particular focus is RPD's proven track record in the development and scaling of processes in the petrochemical and renewable energy industries. This new unit will organically accelerate the company's trajectory by assisting in the next phase of engineering the Biomass technology stack," Gillespie said.
Broader push
The transaction reflects a broader push by waste conversion and low-carbon fuels companies to gain greater control over engineering, project delivery and commercialisation as they move from pilot work to larger facilities. For developers of newer process technologies, in-house design and scale-up expertise can reduce reliance on external contractors and help manage execution risk.
RPD's background aligns closely with that need. The company has worked on technologies involving pyrolysis oils, biomass, plastics and derivative streams, as well as other feedstocks including naphtha, UMO, VGO and lipids.
Abundia has framed the acquisition as a way to add a new operating unit while strengthening its project pipeline. The purchase supports its long-term priorities by adding a revenue-generating business and embedding a technical function within its broader waste-to-value platform.
RPD is headquartered in Cedar Port Industrial Park in Baytown, Texas, near Abundia's main Gulf Coast development efforts. That proximity may simplify integration as Abundia folds the engineering and project development business into its existing operations.
Revenue from RPD will be recognised in Abundia's second-quarter 2026 financial statements.