Global power leader Cummins expects to generate revenues of more than $20 billion worldwide by 2014 with the Middle East contributing meaningfully to that development, a senior official said.

The company’s global revenues in 2009 were $10.8 billion.

Pamela Carter, president of Cummins Distribution Business, said the company would strengthen its partnerships with customers, distributors and stakeholders to tap new markets and achieve growth.

Carter was speaking at a ceremony to mark the opening of its new 6,000 sq m Middle East headquarters in the Jebel Ali Free Zone (Jafza) in Dubai that houses several of its operational offices and facilities.

The headquarters currently accommodates over 120 employees from the Cummins Middle East Regional Distribution Organisation (RDO) and Cummins Middle East as well as representatives of other Cummins business units including power generation, filtration and business services.

The complex also houses a 3,000-sq m warehouse and a comprehensive service training facility for classroom and hands-on training for distributor, dealer and customer technicians.

Dennis Heathfield, managing director of Cummins Middle East Distribution, said Cummins would start work in the next few months on building an engine rebuild and testing centre adjacent to the current facility.

The Middle East RDO covers 16 countries served by the company-owned distributor, four full line independent distributors in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt and Pakistan and two power generation distribution dealers in Iraq and Jordan.

Heathfield and Wassim Aboushaar, general manager of the Cummins Middle East distributorship, welcomed guests at the inauguration.

Heathfield thanked Cummins employees, Jafza officials, developers and other individuals, for their efforts to make the building a reality.

Cummins broke ground on the project in November 2008, and since then, Heathfield said, “there has never been a dull moment.”

Headquartered in Columbus, US, Cummins is a corporation of complementary business units that design, manufacture, distribute and service engines and related technologies, including fuel systems, controls, air handling, filtration, emission solutions and electrical power generation systems.

The new complex has a Leed Silver qualification.