Thailand's long-delayed mega project to cut a 102-km shipping canal through the Isthmus of Kra in the south to serve as an alternative shipping route to the Malacca Straits has been revived. The canal is estimated to cost 810 billion baht ($17.95 billion). Deputy Prime Minister Pitak Intrawithyanunt said a one billion baht ($22 million) feasibility ...
US Bechtel International and Turkey's Botas have begun detailed engineering work for the ...
The Libyan government is reported to have decided to withdraw its $3.5 billion lawsuit ...
The General Investment Authority (GIA) has issued 94 licences with joint and foreign capital during the Hijrah calendar month of Safar (April 25 to May 23) for projects worth SR1.3732 billion ($366 million). For the same period, the GIA issued licences for 56 new industrial projects at a total cost of SR427.3 million. The industrial projects include ...
Construction work on National Petrochemical Industrialisation Company's (NPIC) proposed ...
Al Babtain introduces new street luminaires
Al Babtain Industries, which recently introduced two types of streetlighting luminaires, ...
The Saudi Iron and Steel Company (Hadeed), an affiliate of Saudi Basic Industries ...
Bahrain is to spend BD2 billion ($5.3 billion) in a new campaign aimed at providing every citizen with adequate housing. The emphasis will be on improving housing in villages but towns will also benefit if they lack necessary facilities, said Prime Minister Shaikh Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, who stressed the need to carry out the projects in a ...
The $700 million Qatar Vinyl Company's (QVC) plant at Qatar's Mesaieed Industrial City ...
Abu Dhabi is to get a new amusement park as part of a drive to boost its tourism ...
A new shopping mall in Al Ain, UAE, is expected to open its doors this August. Work on ...
Bahrain is to set up a pool of casual construction labour for contractors to draw from, ...
Saudi interior decoration specialist Alarabi is to set up 'permanent operations' in Kuwait, which it considers a key market in the Gulf. ''After almost 20 years of undertaking major decoration projects in Saudi Arabia, Alarabi is now fast expanding its international horizons,'' says Pietro Nebbia, the Italian president of the Jeddah-based firm. Nebbia ...
Armstrong World Industries has launched a new generation of ceiling systems that will ...
Greenline Interiors is aiming for major business growth in the Middle East hotel ...
Hewi handles complement designer concepts
Hewi of the UK says its new range of door furniture successfully mirrors the interior ...
Opposites will attract, says French style guru
The fusion of opposites has been predicted to be a key consumer lifestyle trend in 2002 ...
Wykeham Farrance International (WFi) of the UK has launched a new catalogue of high-specification industry products for the asphalt materials-testing market. The product range - all of which are said to meet international quality standards - include viscometers, penetrometers, ductilometers, rheometers, compactors and the new non-nuclear Pavement ...
Munters has developed a new Windows based help and calculation program for ventilation consultants, engineers and installers of humidification and evaporative cooling systems. The program, FA6 CALC, includes a general calculation module for dimensioning evaporative humidifiers and coolers. FA6 CALC is a special program developed to simplify the ...
Quality drive pays off for SKM
SKM, a leading manufacturer of central air-conditioning equipment in the Gulf, reports ...
R Hira of the UAE is to launch new range of locally-produced ventilation products at the ...
Invensys Climate Controls, a world leader in the automation and control of heating, ...
Meaptashi Corporation of the UAE, which markets central air-conditioning equipment and ...
Dubai-based Scania distributor has delivered three Scania-powered Cymasa generating sets to Abu Dhabi company Adyard. The units, the first generating sets from Spanish manufacturer Cymasa, have been delivered by Al Shirawi Enterprises to offshore platform and barge fabricator Adyard in Abu Dhabi. The Scania-powered range offered by Al Shirawi, rated ...
For a company to establish itself from scratch within less than a decade in the highly competitive structural steel business is rare. Headline Engineering LLC, currently operating from one of Dubai's industrial areas has literally forged a reputation in nine short years of operations to become one of the UAE's most active diversified heavy engineering, ...
Tender No MOH/113/2001. Asphalting works, construction of boundary wall and landscaping at various Ministry of Health properties. Documents can be obtained from the Directorate of Materials Management, Ministry of Health, Directorate of Materials Management, PO Box 12, Manama, tel: 255555, fax: 252569, on payment of BD15. Bid bond is BD100. CD July 10. ...
