Dubai Industrial City marks 20 years of advancing Middle East’s manufacturing and logistics sectors

Dubai Industrial Metropolis celebrates its twentieth anniversary because the Center East’s main manufacturing and logistics hub demonstrating the collaborative energy of the private and non-private sectors.

One among TECOM Group PJSC’s 10 vibrant enterprise districts, Dubai Industrial Metropolis was unveiled in November 2004 to foster financial diversification and industrial innovation in Dubai and past.

Commemorating twenty years of collective success, Dubai Industrial Metropolis hosted a gala dinner at Jumeirah Emirates Towers attended by senior officers together with Her Excellency Eng. Alia Abdul Rahim Al Harmoudi, Assistant Beneath-Secretary for the Sustainable Communities Sector on the Ministry of Local weather Change and Surroundings (MOCCAE), His Excellency Ahmed Al Naqbi, CEO of Emirates Improvement Financial institution (EDB), Abdulla Belhoul, CEO of TECOM Group PJSC, and Saud Abu Alshawareb, Government Vice President of Industrial at TECOM Group, to chart a roadmap for the trade’s future progress.

For greater than 20 years, Dubai Industrial Metropolis has nurtured a thriving ecosystem of worldwide famend manufacturing giants, with its ecosystem increasing by 11.5% within the yr to end-September 2024 to exceed 1,100 native, regional, and worldwide companies, together with Unilever, A P Moeller Maersk, Patchi, and Al Barakah Dates. The district’s workforce now exceeds 17,000 professionals, a year-on-year enhance of 13% through the first 9 months of this yr, with its variety of operational factories rising 16% throughout the identical interval to greater than 350.

“Dubai Industrial Metropolis was based on a strategic imaginative and prescient to cement the UAE’s and Dubai’s place as a worldwide manufacturing powerhouse, and over the previous 20 years, we now have delivered on that promise,” mentioned Saud Abu Alshawareb, Government Vice President of Industrial at TECOM Group on behalf of Dubai Industrial Metropolis. “Our thriving ecosystem serves as a single-window gateway for international progress and sustainable growth to nurture industrial excellence that elevates the ‘Made in UAE’ brandmark on the world stage.

“Dubai Industrial Metropolis’s legacy is embodied by the success of greater than 1,100 native, regional, and worldwide clients and over 350 operational factories that, from our district, are straight contributing to a extra resilient manufacturing sector. We’ll proceed to nurture developments within the industrial sector and prime it for long-term progress in keeping with the imaginative and prescient of Operation 300bn, Make it within the Emirates, and Dubai Financial Agenda ‘D33’.”

Companion for international influence

 Reaffirming its dedication to nurturing trade excellence for long-term sustainable growth, Dubai Industrial Metropolis introduced a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with international expertise firm Siemens.

The MoU will facilitate cooperation between the district and Siemens in areas together with Industrial Expertise Transformation Index (ITTI) Assessments. Dubai Industrial Metropolis’s clients will obtain insights on digitalisation, sustainability, and operational efficiencies by means of ITTI Assessments performed beneath the UAE’s Ministry of Business and Superior Expertise (MoIAT) as a part of the MoU.

The partnership may even present Dubai Industrial Metropolis’s group entry to Siemens’ Inexperienced Lean Digital Manufacturing unit Roadmaps and Greenfield Digital Manufacturing unit Planning providers to boost the competitiveness of factories inside the district and equipment them for enhanced sustainability. Siemens may even help Dubai Industrial Metropolis in areas together with coaching and capability constructing, in addition to sustainability enhancement help, reaffirming the district’s dedication to advance Dubai’s and the UAE’s manufacturing sectors.

Nurturing trade development
Dubai Industrial Metropolis is rising because it attracts an rising variety of international producers, with 13.9 million sq.ft. of business land added this yr alone. Over the previous two years, Dubai Industrial Metropolis has attracted over AED 2 billion in non-public sector funding, and lately signed a musataha settlement every for MD Pharma Manufacturing unit’s AED 130 million pharmaceutical facility and OZON Prescribed drugs’ AED 293 million manufacturing hub on the district. Silver Line Gate Group additionally broke floor on an AED 200 million built-in facility at Dubai Industrial Metropolis this October.

Strategically situated near international commerce routes together with Jebel Ali Port, Al Maktoum Worldwide Airport, the Dubai Industrial Metropolis Etihad Rail freight terminal, and demanding nationwide and regional highway techniques, Dubai Industrial Metropolis gives end-to-end connectivity to make sure seamless operations for a various vary of consumers. The district gives six sector-specific zones – devoted to producers of base metals; equipment; minerals; meals and beverage; transport; and chemical compounds – which are designed for effectivity, serving to to minimise waste and promote a round economic system.

Manufacturing brilliance

As Dubai stays the worldwide chief for attracting greenfield international direct investments (FDI) and the newly launched Nationwide Funding Technique 2031 seeks to triple the UAE’s cumulative FDI steadiness to AED 2.2 trillion by 2031, sectors corresponding to manufacturing, logistics, and storage will stay a promising avenue for financial progress. Within the second quarter of this yr alone, Dubai’s manufacturing sector was valued at AED 10.6 billion, contributing 9.1% of Dubai’s GDP value AED 116 billion through the interval. The transport and storage sector, valued at AED 15.85 billion, comprised 13.6% of the town’s GDP.

Dubai Industrial Metropolis is aligned with Operation 300bn and Make it within the Emirates and encourages traders, innovators, and builders to leverage the beneficial manufacturing surroundings. Additionally it is supportive of Dubai Financial Agenda ‘D33’, which is creating new alternatives for manufacturing sector progress as Dubai continues to strengthen its diversified financial base. Dubai Industrial Metropolis’s unites these visions with buyer efforts by means of its Make Brilliance international consciousness marketing campaign to hyperlink producers and trade leaders from all over the world in Dubai. Make Brilliance was launched in Could 2023 as Dubai Industrial Metropolis entered strategic partnerships with MoIAT, MOCCAE, EDB, and Dubai Division of Economic system and Tourism (Dubai DET) to advertise superior manufacturing in Dubai and the UAE.

Dubai Industrial Metropolis’s ecosystem additionally demonstrates its dedication to innovation and sustainability, with the co-location of world giants on the district fostering collaborations to shut the loop for a round economic system. Their contributions are supported by Dubai Industrial Metropolis’s efforts to encourage the adoption of renewable vitality, with its clients producing over 70 megawatts of fresh vitality yearly.

The district’s twentieth anniversary celebrations included recognition for achievements that embody the ethos of Make Brilliance, together with its Strategic Companions corresponding to MoIAT, MOCCAE, EDB, Dubai DET, Dubai Improvement Authority, Dubai Land Division, Dubai Civil Defence, and Dubai Police. Worldwide Humanitarian Metropolis was recognised for its Brilliance in Humanitarian Help by Dubai Industrial Metropolis, whereas Al Khayyat Investments, Dubatt Battery Recycling, and Neelkanth Cables had been recognised for Brilliance in Logistics, Sustainability Management, and New Avenues, respectively.

Unilever and Customary Carpets each acquired accolades for Brilliance in Innovation.

Such clients are amongst Dubai Industrial Metropolis’s group of worldwide achieved leaders that has been the mainstay of producing excellence within the Center East for greater than 20 years.

The area’s main industrial hub gives world-class infrastructure, together with land, storage, and logistics areas.

Dubai Industrial Metropolis is a part of TECOM Group’s portfolio of enterprise locations that embody Dubai Web Metropolis, Dubai Media Metropolis, Dubai Studio Metropolis, Dubai Manufacturing Metropolis, Dubai Data Park, Dubai Worldwide Tutorial Metropolis, Dubai Design District (d3), and Dubai Science Park.