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DRIVING LOCALISATION

ADNOC suppliers pledge $817-mn investment

for UAE manufacturing

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company
(ADNOC) said its supply chain part-
ners have committed to investing AED
3-bn ($817-mn) in manufacturing
facilities across the UAE. The
announcement was made at the ‘Make
it in the Emirates’ forum held in Abu
Dhabi recently.

ADNOC said the facilities are situa-
ted throughout the Industrial City of
Abu Dhabi (ICAD), Khalifa Economic
Zones Abu Dhabi (KEZAD), Dubai
Industrial Park, Jebel Ali Free Zone
(JAFZA), Sharjah Airport International
Free Zone (SAIF Zone), and Umm
Al Quwain. They will generate over
3,500 high-skilled jobs in the private facture AED 90-bn ($24.5-bn) worth People, Commercial, and Corporate
sector and produce an array of industrial of products locally in its procurement Support. ADNOC said the facilities
goods such as pressure vessels, pipe pipeline by 2030. include newly operational sites, major
coatings, and fasteners. expansions, and investment commit-
“These investments reflect ADNOC’s ments.
ADNOC’s commercial agreements ongoing drive to support the
under the In-Country Value (ICV) pro- ‘Make it in the Emirates’ initiative ADNOC’s ICV programme has
gramme have enabled facilities that and localise strategic industrial capa- contributed AED242-bn ($65.8-mn) to
allow businesses to benefit from diverse bilities through our In-Country Value the UAE economy and created 17,000
commercial opportunities, the company programme,” said Yaser Saeed Almaz- jobs for UAE nationals since 2018,
said. The ICV programme aims to manu- rouei, ADNOC Executive Director for according to the company.
PROJECT UPDATE

Emirates Biotech inks equipment supply contract

with Sulzer for its new PLA facility

UAE-based bioplastics firm, Emi- Biotech’s transition from early plan- Biotech, commented, “With proprietary
rates Biotech, has signed a supply con- ning to active project execution for equipment now secured, we are firmly
tract with Sulzer, to provide the proprie- the project named Falcon PLA Project. entering the execution phase. This is
tary equipment that will serve as the Sulzer will manufacture and supply a major commitment – not just finan-
technological core of the world-scale the essential proprietary equipment for cially, but strategically – as we lay the
polylactic acid (PLA) production facility the integrated PLA production process foundation for a state-of-the-art PLA
being built by Emirates Biotech. This from lactic acid, which includes lactide facility that will anchor the region’s
follows a licensing agreement signed in formation, purification and polymerisa- transition to sustainable materials.”
December 2024. tion technology.
Sulzer, a Swiss leader in separa-
This milestone confirms Emirates Marc Verbruggen, CEO of Emirates tion and polymerisation technologies,

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