Manufacturing

Odisha is home to some of India’s largest bauxite reserves and is already one of the country’s leading producers of alumina and aluminium

After Make it in the Emirates, Arcera’s Isabel Afonso lays out the trends, partnerships and resilience strategy shaping the company’s next phase

Financial partnerships were signed with Emirates Development Bank and Etihad Credit Insurance to provide manufacturers with preferential trade finance solutions, including working capital, export finance, guarantees, and export credit insurance

The companies said the proposed chemicals are anchored on domestic demand and could substitute key products currently imported into the UAE, while strengthening local supply chain resilience

The initiative supports the UAE’s broader industrial transformation agenda by integrating sovereign AI infrastructure and locally developed technologies into core manufacturing processes

Dr Shamsheer Vayalil, founder and chairman of VPS Healthcare, said the expansion was aimed at bringing critical medicines closer to patients in the region

The event comes as the UAE accelerates efforts to strengthen its industrial sector, with industrial GDP rising 70 per cent since 2021 and exports more than doubling to Dhs262bn

ADNOC chief executive Dr Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber said the company was entering a new execution phase focused on project delivery and industrial growth

EGA said the acquisition would lift its global recycling capacity to more than 400,000 tonnes per year across the UAE, Europe and the US, with a further 200,000 tonnes under development

The acquisition marks 2PointZero’s entry into packaging as its sixth consumer-focused vertical and complements its existing investments in sectors such as beauty and apparel