February, 2022

• 10 February

  EGA plans to build UAE’s first aluminium recycing facility

  

    Abu Dhabi / WAM Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) plans to build a 150,000 tonnes per year aluminium recycling facility, the company’s first and set to be the largest in the UAE. EGA intends to market recycled aluminium under the product name “EternAL,” the company announced on Wednesday in a statement. The facility will process post-consumer aluminium scrap such as used ...

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• 10 February

  Abu Dhabi, Oman to boost economic ties

    Abu Dhabi / WAM Abdullah Mohammed Al Mazrui, Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry, has received Dr. Ahmed bin Hilal bin Saud Al-Busaidi, Ambassador of Oman to the UAE, at the chamber’s tower in Abu Dhabi. During the meeting, which was also attended by Mohamed Helal Al Mheiri, Director General of Abu Dhabi Chamber, Al ...

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• 10 February

  ADFD, Indonesia discuss potential strategic investment opportunities

  

    Abu Dhabi / WAM Mohammed Saif Al-Suwaidi, Director General of the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD), received Husin Bagis, Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia for the UAE, at the Fund’s headquarters in Abu Dhabi. Khalifa Abdullah Al Qubaisi, Deputy Director General of ADFD, and several officials from both sides also attended the meeting. During the meeting, the ...

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• 10 February

  UAE taking seriously threat of organised crime, fraud, money laundering, graft

  

    ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE is embarking on ambitious growth-focused reforms aimed at improving the ease of doing business, attracting foreign investors, creating jobs and diversifying the economy away from oil, said HH Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. He added that the country is also committed to combating the threat ...

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• 10 February

  Jebel Ali Habab Pumping Station upgrade complete

  

    Dubai / WAM Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) has completed the upgrade of Jebel Ali Habab Pumping Station Phase-II & III. The total capacity of water connections at the station is 36 million imperial gallons per day (MIGD), with a total cost of AED67.44 million, said a Dewa statement on Wednesday. The upgrade process aims to promote the ...

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• 10 February

  Slovenia marks its National Day at Expo 2020

    DUBAI / WAM Slovenia celebrated its National Day at Expo 2020 Dubai by highlighting its green heritage and push towards a knowledge economy, as well as its rich cultural traditions. Zdravko Pocivalsek, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economic Development and Technology, Anze Logar, Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Oto Pungartnik, Slovenian Ambassador to the UAE, were welcomed by ...

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• 10 February

  Trakhees completes more than 43,000 deals in 2021

  

    DUBAI / WAM The Department of Planning and Development – Trakhees, the regulatory arm of the Ports, Customs and Free Zone Corporation in Dubai, completed more than 43,000 transactions through the Licencing Department during 2021, with a growth rate of 16% compared to 2020, when about 37,000 transactions were completed. It relates to government services and licencing services for ...

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• 10 February

  US solar company seeks tariff action against key Asian nations

  

    Bloomberg Auxin Solar Inc is asking the US Commerce Department to investigate possible efforts to circumvent tariffs with the imports of equipment from Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia. The company alleges the solar imports use parts or components from China, and that producers are assembling equipment in the Southeast Asian nations as a way of skirting duties, according to ...

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• 10 February

  Europe needs 65 million EV chargers by 2035

  

    Bloomberg Europe will have 130 million electric vehicles (EVs) on the road by 2035, according to a joint report from Ernst & Young and the electricity industry trade association Eurelectric. The report’s projections show Europe’s EV fleet growing from its current base of less than 5 million to 65 million by 2030 and then doubling over the following five years. ...

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• 9 February

  What can anti-Trump Republicans actually do?

  

    After the Republican National Committee censured Representatives Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger and claimed that the Jan. 6 committee they’re serving on is persecuting people for “legitimate political discourse,” several Republican senators were quick to criticize their own party’s leadership. Most notably Utah’s Mitt Romney: “Shame falls on a party that would censure persons of conscience, who seek truth ...

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