DCL improves food safety in Dubai

Freshberry expands to Dammam

Saudi agribusiness market to hit $2.2 billion

Major organisations back Expo Centre Sharjah

Nestlé facility to rise in Dubai World Central

Exports from Brazil total $10.6 billion

Advanced materials for medical devices

Medical devices have taken a turn for the better with the use of plastics. Designers and engineers of medical devices, supplies and packaging have increasingly turned to more advanced plastic materials to provide products with improved properties such as flexibility, biocompatibility, chemical resistance and transparency.

A new potential for turning centres

Turning centres, although advanced, capable machinery, have remained in a time trap, with stoppages taking far longer than is necessary. Machining centres did away early, in the 1960s, with the time-consuming task of manual tool-changing. Automatic tool-changers and tool magazines took over completely and today it is taken for granted that tool-changing time in these machines is measured in seconds.

Reducing energy consumption levels in the Middle East

Small buildings count big in efforts to reduce energy consumption levels in the Middle East

How to choose and use styli

When collecting measurement data on machine tools the selection and uss of stylus becomes critically important.

Fluor wins EPCM contract for Ma’aden-Alcoa aluminium plant

Fluor Corporation has been awarded a US$337 million contract by a joint venture comprising Ma'aden and Alcoa to provide EPCM services for an aluminium manufacturing facility, in Ras Al-Khair in Saudi Arabia.

KSA construction development rates to speed up over 2012-13

Saudi Arabia's already buoyant construction sector was given a further boost, after a flurry of contracts worth US$71.2 billion were awarded.