Elemica, a leading supply chain operating network provider for the process industries, announces that nine of the top ten companies listed on the ICIS Top 100 Chemical Companies annual ranking conduct commerce through Elemica's QuickLink ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
After eight successive quarters of decline, the Middle East and Africa hardcopy peripherals market finally returned to a state of positive growth during the third quarter of 2013, with shipments up 6.6% year on year to total 1,472,000 ...
Platts – Oil production from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) fell to 29.7 million barrels per day (b/d) in November, the lowest volume since mid-2011 when the uprising in Libya significantly reduced the ...
Tags: Platts, OPEC, oil production, Platts survey of OPEC
Senegal hopes to find shale gas in its onshore Paleozoic Basin in the next two years having awarded exploration licenses to international companies, the head of state-owned Petrosen said Thursday. The west African nation, already a small ...
Tags: Shale Gas, Metallurgy
Glass LLC, the first glass holding company in the Middle East and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dubai Investments PJSC [DI], has announced that its coating lines, comprising subsidiaries Emirates Glass LLC [EGL] and Saudi American Glass ...
Tags: Glass, Construction, Decoration
After a sharp downturn following the 2008 financial crisis, growth in coatings demand in the Gulf region of the Middle East is now surging forward again. This recovery was symbolized in late November by the announcement that Dubai, which ...
Tags: Middle East, construction, coatings market
New construction projects are expected to increase demand for cement in coming months. Sales of cement companies dropped by 17 percent in November 2013 to 3.65 million tons compared to 4.37 million tons in the same period in 2012, local ...
Tags: cement, construction
OPEC crude production continued its downward trend in November as a new series of output disruptions took hold in Libya and lower volumes from other member countries outpaced an increase of 192,000 b/d in Iraq, monthly estimates from the ...
Tags: Crude Output, Metallurgy
IDC has released its predictions for the IT industry in 2014, and said it believes that Middle East spending will exceed $32 billion in the coming year. It predicts that the region will make a 7.3 percent year-on-year growth, one of the ...
Tags: It Predictions, Computer
Saudi Arabia-based Alkhabeer Capital has acquired majority stake in UAE-based corrugated and flexible packaging products provider Express Publishing and Investment (EPIL). With the transaction, the Saudi firm expects to expand value of ...
Tags: Packaging Firm, flexible packaging
Huawei has teamed up with MENA mobile telecoms provider Zain Group to identify customer experience as crucial for the coming year. At the Zain Technology Conference 2013 Huawei put forward an expanded agenda focusing on the importance of ...
Recently, Wilo celebrated the reopening of its offices, showroom and warehouse in Jebal Ali Free zone, Dubai. The company also applied the new corporate design with a new logo and new claim "Pioneering for You". Wilo Middle East has been ...
German exports of rough-sawn softwood lumber in the third quarter were 6% higher than in the same quarter of last year at 1.433m m3. Data from the Federal Statistics Office in Wiesbaden shows that deliveries to countries outside Europe rose ...
Tags: softwood, construction
Caprari S.p.A. has taken a new step forwards and has embarked upon an important project. The decision is based on the need to support a market that demands an increasingly more comprehensive range of products and qualified solutions in ...
BASF launched the Master Builders Solutions brand in Russia, Turkey, the Gulf Cooperation Council countries – Saudi-Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – as well as Kazakhstan. The brand strengthens BASF's industry orientation: ...