The petrochemicals and chemicals production capacity of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries is expected to rise to 191.2 million tons by 2020, which would be a whopping 50 percent rise over last year’s capacity of 127.8 million ...
Tags: GPCA Optimistic, GCC Petrochem, Apparel
EPC Abengoa is to use PX® technology from Energy Recovery Inc. in two desalination plants in Ghana and Oman. Energy Recovery adds that both of these arid countries are home to growing populations with limited access to fresh water ...
Tags: Energy Recovery, Desalination Deals, Processing Machinery
Oman Sugar Refinery (OSRC) has signed an agreement to establish first sugar refinery facility in the country at the Port of Sohar with an estimated investment of $200m. The agreement was signed by Port of Sohar secretary-general of the ...
Tags: Oman Sugar, Food
chas said that it has received $7.8m in compensation from a contractor who was commissioned to install a clinker production line in 2011. In a statement to the Muscat Securities Market, the firm said that the contractor had also ...
Tags: Oman Cement, Cement, Construction
China's National Development and Reform Commission will not adjust the regulated prices of gasoline and diesel in what would have been the first such exercise following the new pricing mechanism introduced late last month, the NDRC said ...
Toyota Australia last month recorded its second highest monthly export figures for the 2012/13 financial year. A total of 7,383 Camry, Camry Hybrid and Aurion vehicles were exported during the month of March. Of these about 97 per ...
According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in February this year Turkey's steel billet exports amounted to 195,595 metric tons decreasing by 27.3 percent compared to the previous month and down 3.1 percent ...
Tags: Billet Exports, Mineral
Sri Lanka's state-owned Ceylon Petroleum Corp., the country's sole importer of fuel oil, has made a rare export offer of the product due to falling demand from power stations as well as higher domestic output, company sources said Friday. ...
Toyota Australia has released export figures for its locally built Toyota Camry and Toyota Aurion models, showing that 70 per cent of its Australian made range have been exported to the end of the company's financial year on March 31. ...
Tags: Toyota, Auto Parts, Transportation
Oman's first sugar refinery facility at the Port of Sohar is set to be to be operational by early 2015. Port of Sohar executive commercial manager Edwin Lammers said that the facility will be constructed at a waterfront site adjacent to a ...
Tags: Sugar Refinery, Agriculture, Oman
EMIRATES FIRE FIGHTING EQUIPMENT FACTORY LLC popularly known as FIREX is the leading fire and safety equipments manufacturer in UAE with its operation spread all across the globe. The Sharjah based firm was established in the year 1998 with ...
Sundeep Rao, director of Oman-based Sohar Steel, which produces rebars, coated rebars and weld mesh, has answered SteelOrbis' questions regarding the market outlook and Sohar Steel's operations. What is the situation regarding Sohar ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, steel
South Korea's state-run Korea Gas Corp, the world's largest buyer of LNG, said Thursday it imported 34.97 million mt of LNG in 2012, up 2.9% from a year earlier. The state utility said it plans to import 37.90 million mt of LNG in 2013, ...
Songket, the indigenous luxury handwoven fabric of Southeast Asian nations like Indonesia, Brunei and Malaysia, was showcased at a fashion show hosted by Nilam Larasati Sukanto, the wife of Indonesian Ambassador to Oman, at her residence ...
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Nicolas Kyvernitis Electronics Enterprises, distributors for Neutrik across the GCC (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Oman, Bahrain and Kuwait) as well as Iraq and Iran have recently supplied Dubai based production company Eclipse with OpticalCON ...
Tags: Nicolas Kyvernitis Electronics Enterprises, Neutrik, LED walls