SAINT-GOBAIN Gyproc, which recently launched a new manufacturing facility in Abu Dhabi, will boost its portfolio with eight new products by the end of this year and a further 20 into 2011. Gyproc manufactures and supplies all the components required for complete drylining wall and ceiling systems.
BELHASA Projects (BHP) has recently completed two projects for Tabreed (National Central Cooling Company).
FOUNDATION specialist Bauer Spezialtiefbau has successfully laid the foundations for two iconic museums in Abu Dhabi which aim to further strengthen the Gulf as a destination of choice for culture tourism.
ADPC awards $130m contractABU Dhabi Ports Company (ADPC) has awarded a Dh484.6-million ($130-million) infrastructure works contract to Consolidated Contracting Engineering & Procurement (CCC) for its Khalifa Port and Industrial Zone (KPIZ) project.This is the fifth major package awarded over the last year for its flagship project.
El SEIF Engineering has starting painting works of the first of the villas it has completed at the 5,000-villa Al Falah development in Abu Dhabi using paints from Sigma Paints. Sigma Paints will supply an estimated Dh12 million to Dh15 million ($3.27 million to $4.
MODULAR universal formwork from German formwork specialist Paschal has been used for all vertical faces of the $127-million Mamzar Beach substation, which is being built next to the Al Mamzar Beach Park in Dubai.
WORK on the iconic 73-storey centrepiece of the Dubai Pearl project, which is targeted for completion by 2012-end, is gathering pace having reached level five of the structure, according to Pearl Dubai, the developer. The entire project is scheduled for completion in December a year later.
THE Dubai-based branch of the UK’s Pitchmastic PmB has delivered a simple, quick, durable and quieter solution for a road rehabilitation project in Abu Dhabi emirate, which forms part of ongoing maintenance works by Al Ain Municipality.
DUBAI-based Face Middle East has completed the region’s first fully-compliant DM1 (defined movement 1) floor at the new facility of Redington Gulf, a leading IT distributor in the Middle East, at Jebel Ali Free Zone in Dubai.
WRENCH Solutions, one of India’s leading IT solutions company, said Al Habtoor Leighton Group (HLG) has deployed its software across its projects valued at more than $2.29 billion. HLG has adopted Wrench I enterprise as its new organisation-wide technology infrastructure to plan, execute, monitor and hand over projects.
THE UAE is demonstrating renewed and steadily increasing interest in US hardwoods among the regional markets, according to the American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC), which conducted a seminar in Dubai recently. Import figures have reached $4.3 million from January to June 2010, up by 84 per cent from the $2.
LARSEN & Toubro (L&T), India’s leading technology, engineering and construction conglomerate, has inaugurated a new 11,249-sq-m systems integration facility at the Jebel Ali Free Zone (Jafza) in Dubai.
