Industry
Connected cars to make up 37% of Middle East’s automotive population by 2023, says Aranca forecast
Dubai, UAE: The Middle East’s automotive aftermarket industry is on the cusp of major transformation as it gears up to cope with a forecasted upturn in the region’s connected car population, according to key sector players. A report from global research and analytics firm Aranca predicts penetration to grow 20% over the next three […]
EGA Champions the Environment – MD & CEO HE Abdulla Kalban
How does Emirates Global Aluminium define sustainable development? The principles of sustainability are embedded in everything we do at EGA. We are a strong supporter of the UAE Vision to ‘ensure sustainable development while preserving the environment, and to achieve a perfect balance between economic and social development’. Sustainable development has been defined by the […]
Learning The Sustainability Lesson From Sheikh Zayed
By HE Abdulla Kalban, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Emirates Global Aluminium Since 2011 EGA has reduced total CO2 emissions per tonne of aluminium produced by 10%. We have pioneered the role of Emirati women in heavy industry and more than 17% of people working at supervisory level and above at EGA are female. […]
Welcome To The Virtual World
Industry 4.0 is the intelligence behind the maximum efficiency of tomorrow’s world. But how does collecting data today help businesses stay sustainable while predicting what will happen tomorrow? Intralogistics experts, Swisslog, have the answer. The fourth industrial revolution, or Industry 4.0, is connecting companies to the virtual world – a world in which information technology […]
Solving Challenges For A Better Tomorrow
“About six to seven per cent of fresh food is wasted globally a year because of breaks in the cold chain.” Abhishek Ajay Shah, Co-Founder and Group CEO, RSA Global RSA Cold Chain is a new business arm for Dubai-based logistics company RSA Global, started in April 2017 to provide dedicated cold chain solutions to […]
The Real Price Of Fashion
UAE-based sustainable fashion brand builders Femke Speelman from Phemke, and Ayesha Siddequa of Future Fashion talk about the growth of sustainable fashion in the region, and what sustainable fashion really means. “We need to educate our customers about what is sustainable and how to make the right decision when buying clothes.” Femke Speelman, Founder & […]
ZS Screw Blowers Lower Energy Consumption & CO2 Footprint For Union Cement
Union Cement Company’s vision is to reduce the company’s CO2 footprint and make the plant more environmentally friendly, according to Hamad Khalfan Al Marri (Acting General Manager at UCC). Compressed air is one of the largest energy consumers in UCC’s operations and has been ear-marked for an area of overhaul and innovation to help reduce […]
Sustainability; From Cow To Cup
In 2016 Arla produced 13.9 bn kg of milk “We need to deliver food in a much more sustainable way, if we as a food company do not work with sustainability, it will be a mess.” Ann-Camilla Kjaempe, Category Director at Arla Foods Global dairy product behemoth, Arla Foods is a Europe-wide co-operative owned and […]
Seven Action Steps To Sustainable Manufacturing
The seven steps are not necessarily a one-way journey. We recommend that you apply them for a cyclical management process. Doing so will help you measure and understand your environmental impact, as well as improve your performance on an on-going basis. It is important to appreciate that sustainable manufacturing is not about a final destination […]
EGA Signs Agreement With VITO
“Finding viable uses for this by-product is a challenge for our industry globally, but we aim to reduce and even eliminate the need to store new bauxite residue in the longer term.” Abdalla Alzarooni, EGA’s Vice President of Technology Development & Transfer. Emirates Global Aluminium, the largest industrial company in the United Arab Emirates outside […]
