With over AED170 Million as an investment, MESC-UAE the Groups' biggest manufacturing site, demonstrates the competitive strength of this site and gives a further boost to MESC Group products and to the economic growth of the region. It's considered as the supporting continuous strong growth plan of the Group in the coming years due to the growing usage and demand of cables in the region.
The fact that MESC Group has further invested in UAE after taking over Sharjah Cables is to increase capacity and to support its targeted growth. The decision to build the new plant was taken in the first quarter of 2008 and is fully in line with the Groups strategy and is considered as a continuation of cables products and accessories of MESC Group, the "One-Stop-Shop" for all types of cables.
Said Al Karram, the General Manager of MESC-UAE stated that the Group's new facility will be one of the major projects in Al Ghayl Industrial Park of Rakia and will be dedicated to supply United Arab Emirates and the Gulf Countries with high-end quality cables and services that will contribute in the development of the region.
MESC- UAE is one of the biggest and high-end technology plants in the region for producing Industrial, Instrumentation, Control and Low Voltage Power cables. Its spreads over an area of 76,900 sq.mtr divided into two sites: 52,376 sq.mtr.+ 24,524 sq.mtr. The first site; 52,400 sq.mtr. is divided as 12,000 sq.mtr production facility, 4,800 sq.mtr. warehouse, 1,850 sq.mtr. offices and workshops facilities. While the second site 24, 500 sq.mtr. is for accommodation facilities and open storage area, he added.
We have successfully completed machines erection, installation and process commissioning; production trial is going on, and the expected commercial production to kick off by the end of the second quarter of 2010 with around 550 – 600 MT of copper consumption per month as an expected capacity of different Industrial, Instrumentation, Control and Low Voltage Power cables.
The Engineering Unit is playing a vital role in the company; thus, our Engineers and Technicians have a lot of experience in designing, producing, and testing cables, this experience is accumulated from working with national & international reputable cable companies. The quality of all our products is ensured by strict monitoring of raw material, production and testing cycle, by means of extensive control of each and every stage. Our work force consists of both expatriates and nationals. We strive to support all our employees, as they are a priceless asset to our business, and we draw up an employee development plan".
"Our core scenario is to continue gradual efforts at economic integration since there will be greater focus on manufacturing industries in the region, because the last couple of years have focused world attention to the GCC economies- not only as exporters of oil and gas, but as investment destinations with major infrastructure and financial projects, manufacturing services and touristic districts". This new plant will help us balance our order books and in the coming years we will focus on aggressively increasing our market share and compete in a more difficult market where there will be less demand in terms of quantity, but will be huge demand in terms of quality, he added.
With years of experience, detailed and well thought out management processes in place, and a long list of prestigious projects, in addition to our work force that is considered the finest talents in the industry, MESC Group has everything in place to enable it to build more for the future, Al Karram concluded.
