Sweden-based Semcon expands the partnership with fuel cell company Powercell to upscale the company?s production of fuel cells with automation and robots
Manufacturing
Aluminium trade amounts to US$710mn in Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi focuses on exploring the prospects of aluminium sector development to drive the economic diversification strategies in the entire region. (Image source: Barnshaws Metal Bending Ltd/Flickr)
The trade in aluminium has amounted to US$710mn in Abu Dhabi in first seven months of 2018
EGA receives caustic soda shipment for Al Taweelah alumina refinery

Al Taweelah alumina refinery is the first to be built in the UAE and the second in the Middle East. (Image source: Vicki Nunn/Wikimedia Commons)
Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), one of the leading industrial companies in the UAE, has received the first shipment of caustic soda for its under-construction Al Taweelah alumina refinery
Assarain Concrete to develop mega block plant in Oman?s Duqm

Assarain Concrete is one of the largest manufacturers and suppliers of concrete products in Oman. (Image source: Assarain Concrete)
Assarain Concrete Products (ACPD), part of Oman-based trading and investment company Assarain Group, has signed a 25-year land renewable lease agreement for a plot of 60,000 sq m with Duqm Industrial Land Company (DILC), a subsidiary of Port of Duqm Company (PDC)
Immensa and Consolidated Contractors Company revive concrete casting techniques with 3D printing

The ?Sensorial Adaptive Concrete Screen? is made from 3D printed formwork produced on Immensa Labs? BigRep ONE 3D printer. (Image source: Immensa)
Immensa Technology Labs, the UAE?s leading additive manufacturing (AM or 3D printing) company, in collaboration with Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC) has released the result of a world-first joint effort to recover a series of concrete casting techniques with the aid of large-format 3D printing