Speaking at the SteelOrbis 2014 Spring Conference & 70th IREPAS Meeting in Barcelona, Bhaskar Dutta, CEO of the Omani steel and pipe manufacturer Al Jazeera Steel, stated that rebar consumption in the GCC countries is expected to rise to 12 ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Steel
The price of glass is expected to surge this year amid growing demand, an industry leader said. Abdulaziz Bin Yagub Al Serkal, General Manager of Dubai Investments ( DI ) PJSC, anticipated an increase in the cost of glass in the midst of ...
Tags: Strong Demand, Glass
UAE-based steel producer Emirates Steel Industries (ESI) has announced its financial results for 2013, stating that its sales revenues amounted to AED 6.5 billion ($ 1.8 billion), almost eight percent higher than 2012, despite sluggish ...
Tags: steel producer, steel
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
The Big 5 is the Middle East’s largest building and construction show! From 25 – 28 November 2013, were the world’s leading construction buyers and sellers gathered to showcase and source the most diverse range of ...
Tags: construction, Big 5
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 ...
Brocade has released survey results which show that their customer’s primary network-specific concern is ‘data centre availability’ driven by virtualisation and mobility, as opposed to ‘network-complexity’. ...
Turkish steelmakers and international scrap recyclers are fairly quiet this week in discussing December/January shipments of bulk cargoes, with electric arc furnaces keen to sell more finished steel products before turning their attention ...
Tags: Mills, Scrap Recyclers, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Turkish steelmakers and international scrap recyclers are fairly quiet this week in discussing December/January shipments of bulk cargoes, with electric arc furnaces keen to sell more finished steel products before turning their attention ...
Tags: Steel Mills, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Stork Technical Services ("Stork"), a global provider of knowledge based asset integrity services for the oil & gas, power & chemical utility sectors and Oryx Energy Products & Services LLC ("Oryx"), a service provider for the oil & ...
UAE-based steel producer Conares has announced that it plans to reach full capacity production at its rebar mill in November due to the substantial increase in both domestic and export demand mainly supported by the improving situation in ...
Tags: Rebar Mill, Mineral
Dairy co-operative Irish Dairy Board (IDB) is investing €20m in Saudi Arabia to acquire 75% stake in local firm Al Wazeen Trading and establish a new cheese plant at Al Wazeen facility in Riyadh. The expansion strengthens IDB's ...
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BeyondTrust is using GITEX to make its mark on the Middle East, having proclaimed that it is ready to do serious business within the region. As part of the vendor’s drive to push into the region, it recently appointed Sudarshan ...
Tags: BeyondTrus, GITEX
Rather than automobiles, it is the construction industry that is more open to using innovative glass products, Saint-Gobain Glass India has found. So much so, the Indian subsidiary of the French multinational has started pitching some of ...
Tags: Glass, Construction, Decoration
Ihab Moawad, Vice President, Trend Micro, Mediterranean, Middle East & Africa Trend Micro will release its finding on the greatest IT security threats to business in the MENA region at GITEX 2013, the company said Sunday. Trend Micro ...
Tags: Computer Products, software