Fuelled by public infrastructure investment and attractive incentives for foreign investors, Dubai’s industrial sector continues to be a major driver of the emirate’s economic growth. While industrial output has been historically built on low-tech but high-value-added segments such as base metals and chemicals production, the emirate is pursuing a diversification agenda under its Dubai Industrial…
Fuelled by public infrastructure investment and attractive incentives for foreign investors, Dubai’s industrial sector – defined as manufacturing, electricity and gas – continues to be a major driver of the emirate’s economic growth. While industrial output has been historically built on low-tech but high-value-added segments such as base metals and chemicals production, the emirate…
The global economy is entering the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), or Industry 4.0, based on the application of new digital and automated technologies in production processes and service delivery. These changes are bringing emerging markets improved productivity, as well as risks – namely, reshoring and the displacement of human labour by automation. Wealthier emerging markets, such as…
Dubai's well diversified economic base has continued to underpin growth in the emirate. Despite slowing global growth and rising tensions placing pressure on international shipping, Dubai’s maritime sector has continued to strengthen, and in 2019 the emirate moved up in the ranking of the world’s top-10 maritime capitals, securing the ninth spot. The emirate is also rapidly emerging as a leade
The 17th annual Operations & Maintenance Conference in the Arab Countries (OMAINTEC 2019) will be held at Le Meridien Dubai Hotel & Conference Center in Dubai, UAE on 19-21 November 2019 under the patronage of H.E. Dr. Abdullah bin Mohammed Belhaif Al Nuaimi, the Minister of Infrastructure Development. The main objective of the conference is to continue its mission in presenting and highlighting: The…
The conference will host over 600 senior manufacturing professionals from the region. The event is the Middle East’s only manufacturing and trade-focused conference. More than 40 thought leaders from the region and around the world will be participating as speakers and panelists. The programme agenda features topics on the future of the region’s manufacturing industry, smart factories, implementing…
More than 40 internationally and regionally renowned lighting designers will share practical experiences and lessons learned through keynote presentations, panel discussions and case study workshops. This year’s agenda covers over 15 topics that will address the contemporary role of a lighting designer, incorporating sustainable lighting into design, the growing importance of efficient public…
From 2007 to 2017 the UAE’s industrial sector grew by approximately 31%. According to consultancy Oxford Economics, it is set to grow marginally faster — by another 34% — in the 10 years leading to 2027. At the emirate level, Dubai’s industrial sector has likewise emerged as a major driver of growth; the sector in Dubai grew by 6% annually in the ten years to 2017 and this rate of expansion…
The global economy is entering the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), or Industry 4.0, based on the application of new digital and automated technologies in production processes and service delivery. These changes are bringing emerging markets improved productivity, as well as risks – namely, reshoring and the displacement of human labour by automation. Wealthier emerging markets, such as…
From 2007 to 2017 the UAE’s industrial sector (defined as extraction, manufacturing, utilities and construction) grew by approximately 31%. According to consultancy Oxford Economics, it is set to grow marginally faster — by another 34% — in the 10 years leading to 2027. At the emirate level, Dubai’s industrial sector has likewise emerged as a major driver of growth; the sector in Dubai…