Sheikh Hamed bin Zayed and Sheikh Majid bin Mohammed break ground for new Ducab High Voltage Factory
Dubai, November 24, 2009- Under the patronage of H.H. Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid, UAE Prime Minister and Vice-President, and Ruler of Dubai, H.H. Sheikh Hamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Chief of the Abu Dhabi Crown Prince's Court and Chairman of the Higher Corporation of Specialized Economic Zones (ZonesCorp), and H.H. Sheikh Majid Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of Dubai Culture and Arts Authority, broke ground for Ducab’s new High Voltage Factory, in a ceremony held today (November 24th ) at the Ducab head office and factory in Jebel Ali.
The ceremony was in honour of Ducab’s 30th anniversary of operations in the UAE and was attended by H.E. Saeed Al Tayer, Managing Director & CEO of DEWA, and H.E. Eng. Ahmed Al Mureikhi, Representative from ADWEA. Ducab managers, business partners and key media representatives were also present at the event. The new factory will be Ducab’s sixth plant, catering to high-voltage and extra high-voltage projects already planned by ADWEA and DEWA as well as projects around the region.
Along with the ground breaking of the new factory, the company also officially launched the Ducab Special Cable Unit (SCU). This new unit significantly expands Ducab’s capacity for specialised cables suitable for oil and gas projects in the region.
The AED 500 million Ducab-HV factory is already underway and commercial operations will commence in late 2010. It will manufacture cable systems in the voltage range 66kV (66,000 Volts) to 400kV (400,000 Volts) covering the highest voltage currently used in the GCC. With a total built up area of 22,000m2 on a site plot of 50,000m2 at the Ducab Jebel Ali site, the factory will be the first dedicated high voltage facility in the region and will have a manufacturing capability of 30,000 Tonnes per year of cable in the range 66kV to 400kV and conductor sizes from 300sqmm to 2500sqmm.
Posted on Jan 19, 2010 by Ducab