TOWER Tech 2011 is expected to host 173 exhibitors from various countries around the world when it opens at Qatar’s Doha Exhibition Centre later this year (November 22 to 25).

THE Big 5 Saudi Arabia has been conferred the ‘Best Trade Exhibition’ award at the heavily-contested Middle East Events Awards 2011, held last month at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre. The awards honour outstanding achievements in the Middle East events industry.

YAPEX Building Exhibition, one of the biggest fairs for the building and construction industry, will open its doors once again this year with its wide range of products and services aimed at those looking to build tourism facilities, among other infrastructure projects.

BYSTRONIC, an active supplier of high-quality solutions for the cost-effective processing of sheet metal and other sheet materials, showcased a number of innovations in waterjet cutting and automation at Blechexpo 2011, an international trade fair for the sheet metal working industry, held in Stuttgart, Germany (June 6 to 9).

LEADING companies from Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia will gather in Bahrain next April for gulfBID 2012, the showpiece trade exhibition for the region’s construction, contracting and engineering communities.

DOW’S Advanced Materials Division (AMD), a division of The Dow Chemical Company, was at the fifth Annual Cost-Effective Sustainable Design & Construction Middle East conference, held in May (22 to 25) in Abu Dhabi to show its strong support for the UAE’s landmark efforts to both promote and legislate sustainability as an integral practice w

Investors eye $26bn projects MORE than 5,000 investors, high net-worth individuals, government companies, construction, infrastructure and utility companies attended the Future Makkah 2011 event, seeking to capitalise on over SR100 billion ($26.