Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 23.November 2015
Emirates Steel participated for the 5. consecutive year at the international Building and Construction Show, the Dubai Big 5 Exhibition that took place in November 23. to 26th, at Dubai World Trade Centre.
Emirates Steel was among major exhibitors at this specialized forum, and showcased its steel product range including rebar, rebar in coil, wire rod, heavy sections and sheet piles, along its ongoing ambitious plans to transform the company into total steel solutions with further focus on high value steel products, improved products and service quality, in addition to its initiatives related to the company’s environmental footprint and safety for workers and customers.
Eng. Ahmed Salem Al Dhaheri, Chief Commercial Officer (CCM Emirates Steel said “The United Arab Emirates led by the wise guidance of His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Al Nahyan, UAE President, continues to accomplish impressive development across economic, industrial and social sectors, and has established a pioneer position worldwide ranking first in the world in terms of the high quality and advanced roads and infrastructure on the Global Competitiveness Index (GC°, according to the Global Competitiveness Report (GC R) 2014-2015 issued by the World Economic Forum (Davos)the UAE is witnessing a construction boom with the huge investment opportunities and massive project in line with Abu Dhabi Vision 2030”.
He added: “the BIG 5 is very important event for us, it is an excellent venue to showcase our expertise in steel production, and boost our position at local and regional market,” he added “to us the Dubai Big 5 is the ideal platform to present our expertise and promote our unique product to all GCC.
countries, especially with the increased demand for high quality steel products in the regional market”. He added:” the Dubai Big 5 Exhibition is also the perfect destination where we can meet our end customers and have direct dialogue with them, we were satisfied with the positive response we received during last year’s edition, and this year the feedback exceeded our expectations^.
Emirates Steel’s current product range includes value-added product; a stronger steel with higher tensile strengths and steels with special mechanical properties so that lesser quantity of steel is required by customers, in addition to its range of straight length reinforcing bar (rebar) and rebar in .1, wire rod, hot rolled structural steel sections, which include beams, columns, channels and sheet piles.
The UAE steel maker is a. supplying high-value steel products used in nuclear plants for the first peaceful nuclear energy program for power generation in the country, and has a. introduced a number of additional grades of wire-rod with diverse chemical compositions and distinctive physical properties, offering flexibly to cater for different applications.
UAE construction market is one of the most vibrant in the GCC, post the crisis of 2008, the market has slowly returned to be a vibrant, yet controlled & calibrated. The market affords use of high technology methods & materials in the construction. With the best contractors & fabricators from the region & the world operating in the UAE, and the most developed construction market in the world. Intensive spending on construction and infrastructure projects in the UAE has resulted in an increase in the country’s steel production capacity; today, the UAE has 5.3 million tons of rebar capacity installed, 1.2 million tons of section capacity and 1.1 million tons of wire rod capacity.
It is worth mentioning that steel consumption in the Arab region is expected to reach 57.3Mt in 2016 from 54.6 Mt in 2015 recording an increase of 5.1% – according to Emirates Steel.