MARAFIQ, Saudi Arabia’s privately-run power and water utility company for Jubail and Yanbu, has invited bids from international companies for the construction of a $1.5-billion, 850-MW thermal power plant at Yanbu, along Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea coast. Companies from Europe, the US, South Korea and Saudi will be invited to bid for the contract.
TEREX Construction has appointed a new distributor network covering the whole of the Middle East region. Backed up by a dedicated team at the head office in Dubai, UAE, Terex now offers complete solutions, from choosing the right construction equipment to providing the parts and service to keep them producing for years to come.
Sugar factory work gathers paceWORK on a BD56.7-million ($150 million) sugar factory in Bahrain is gathering pace. Arabian Sugar Company (ASC), which is building the plant, has made steady progress in completing the project’s foundation work. It is expected that the factory will be in production by the fourth quarter of next year.
JULY 23 was Oman’s 40th Renaissance Day, commemorating the accession to power of the sultanate’s current ruler HM Sultan Qaboos bin Said. Sigma Oman and its partners marked the occasion with a remarkable success story of their own while heralding a resurgence of the paint manufacturer’s decorative business in the sultanate.
ARCHITECTURAL major Aedas has been chosen as the master planner for Bahrain’s massive commerce, entertainment and education facility – @bahrain.
CONSTRUCTION of a multi-million-dollar roads interchange at the Mina Salman junction in Bahrain is expected to begin early next year. Part of the Strategic Roads Master Plan, the project will bring an end to bottlenecks at one of Bahrain’s main arteries, said Works Ministry Public Works Affairs Under-Secretary Nayef Al Kalali.
WORK on a BD16.2-million ($43 million) state-of-the-art national amphitheatre in the Bahrain’s capital Manama will be completed by next year.
SAUDI ARABIA’S Al-Jazeera Paints says it has become the first company outside the US to be awarded Green Seal’s EcoLabel certification for its range of green-friendly paints.
GREG Garner, the new CEO of Belhasa Projects (BHP), has vowed to grow the company by modernising its operations, increasing productivity and entering new markets.
EUROPEAN lifting specialist GGR Group has expanded into the Middle East with the launch of GGR Gulf under a joint venture with Dubai-based Oriental General Trading. GGR Gulf will offer customers in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Jordan and the rest of the Gulf, specialist restricted access lifting equipment.
DOHALAND has awarded a design-and-build contract worth QR182 million ($50 million) to Drake and Scull Water and Power (DSWP), a subsidiary of Drake & Scull International (DSI), for two district cooling plants on its flagship Musheireb project in the capital of Qatar.
