Cavotec cables for refinery
THE Cavotec engineering group has received an order from ThyssenKrupp for advanced cable and hose reels that will be used in a refinery project in Saudi Arabia’s Yanbu Industrial City.

Cavotec will manufacture explosion-proof (Zone 21) Atex cable and hose reels, medium voltage cables, one Brevetti stainless steel circular power cable chain and related material. The equipment will be used to power indoor stacker and reclaimer machines that will handle coke and sulphur.

ThyssenKrupp’s end customer is construction and engineering group Techint.

Empower endorses Booz study
EMIRATES Central Cooling Corporation (Empower) has endorsed research done by management consulting firm Booz & Company, which has concluded that, if implemented under right conditions, district cooling could effectively serve 30 per cent of the region’s cooling requirements by 2030.

The study says that by 2020 the fuel needed to power air-conditioning in the GCC will be the equivalent of 1.5 million barrels of oil per day.

Sugar plant startup in 2013
BAHRAIN’S first sugar refinery will become operational in early 2013 according to International Investment Bank (IIB). A leading Islamic lender in Bahrain, IIB is also a 22 per cent shareholder in the $99 million project.

IIB’s CEO Aabed Al Zeera told a local Arabic daily that the plant would generate 585,000 tonnes of refined sugar per year.

Petra signs lease deal at KAEC
SAUDI ARABIA’S King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC), the region’s largest private sector project, has signed a lease agreement with Petra Engineering Industrial Company, a leading Jordan-based manufacturer of air conditioning and refrigeration equipment.

KAEC will provide additional land with an area of 45,552 sq m within Phase 1B of its industrial valley project.

The new contract comes a year after the previous contract between both parties which entailed leasing a 25,204 sq m land at Phase 1A in the industrial valley to build an air conditioning and refrigeration factory.