Gulf Glass 2013, the only dedicated glass exhibition for the entire MENA region, is already recording its largest ever exhibitor uptake, and with four months still to go, will be one of the largest glass industry shows seen in Asia this ...
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Another month has passed in which demand in the global long steel products market has failed to show the long-awaited recovery, according to the market outlook released by IREPAS, the global association of producers and exporters of long ...
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British luxury car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has opened a new engineering test centre in Dubai, UAE to undertake hot weather vehicle research, development and testing. The new facility having a footprint of 11,120sqft is ...
International packaging and paper group Mondi has commenced full production at its new industrial bags plant in Sulaimaniyah, northern Iraq. The greenfield project, in collaboration with local partner Kaso Group, is expected to ...
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HSBC Middle East has inked an exclusive agreement with Zurich Insurance Middle East for distribution of its personal and commercial general insurance products in the UAE over the next ten years. Involving distribution in other Middle East ...
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Ukraine's largest pipe manufacturer Interpipe started producing steel billets in 2012, a new achievement on its way to vertical integration. Duncan Pell, Interpipe's sales director for the Middle East and North Africa, explained Interpipe's ...
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Today marked one of the biggest one-day HP events ever to hit the Middle East, with its Road To Innovation show stopping off at the Jumeriah Beach Hotel in Dubai. As well as hundreds of delegates, customers and guest speakers, it was also ...
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Steel demand in the the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region is expected to grow by 3.2 percent to 65.2 million metric tons in 2013, after 2.2 percent growth in 2012, aided by reconstruction activities in the Arab Spring countries and ...
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Global insurance services provider Clements Worldwide has launched its Dubai office, which the company claims to be its first location in the MENA region. The US insurer manages offices in Washington DC and London, and with the addition ...
At the SteelOrbis Market Talks Meeting held in the northwestern Turkish city of Bursa on March 15, Sinan Sozen, executive vice president of Borcelik, one of Turkey's leading cold rolled coil and galvanized sheet producers, said that the ...
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SmartGlass International, the manufacturer of electronically switchable privacy glass, has announced that it is intensifying its expansion drive in the Middle East to take advantage of a new surge in property development and demand for ...
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SAP and Saudia announced on Wednesday that they had signed a MoU to set up a competency centre at King Abdullah Economic City in Makkah. The idea is to prepare Saudi graduates for the job market through teaching essential business, IT and ...
Simon Whitburn, Vice President of International Sales, AccessData According to AccessData Group, the Middle East is fast becoming a prime target for cyber criminals, mostly because so many regional organisations are underequipped to ...
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Jordan - the country, not the model - has unveiled a 25-teraflop supercomputer based on Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) hardware. The IMAN1 computer had its first public outing at the MENA ICT Forum in Amman last week, unveiled by Zaid Abudayeh, ...
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First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA – which manufactures thin-film photovoltaic (PV) modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) services – has joined Munich-based ...
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