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Emirates News Agency – KEZAD Group advances Abu Dhabi industrial strategy with 500,000 mt Dana steel project

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ABU DHABI, 30th December, 2022 (WAM) — Khalifa Economic Zone, Abu Dhabi’s integrated trade, logistics and industrial hub, the KEZAD Group, has signed a preliminary agreement with industrial flagship manufacturing unit Dana Steel for the joint venture Dana Group, builds its first hot and cold rolling mill in Abu Dhabi.

Under the terms of the agreement, Dana Steel will invest in the development of a 50,000 square meter facility at KEZAD. The new complex will facilitate the backward integration of the company’s continuous galvanizing and continuous color coating lines and will have a rolling capacity of 500,000 tonnes. This approach will help increase Dana Steel’s manufacturing capacity in the GCC by replacing imported raw materials such as cold rolled full hard coil with new ‘Made in UAE’ supplies.

By providing the base for Dana Steel’s first plant in Abu Dhabi, KEZAD Group has extended its support for Abu Dhabi’s Industrial Strategy, which aims to scale up the emirate’s manufacturing sector by 2031 through a series of transformational programs More than double that to AED172 billion.

Mohamed Al Khadar Al Ahmed, CEO of KEZAD Group, said: “Investors such as Dana Steel are choosing our industrial ecosystem as a base to develop their business in the UAE due to the modern infrastructure and efficient transport network offered by KEZAD and Khalifa Port We look forward to supporting Dana Steel in its journey to serve customers and expand its international presence by achieving vertical integration of its manufacturing supply chain.”

Dr Ankur Dana, CEO of Dana Steel Industry, said: “With the growing global demand for high-quality steel products, we are delighted to launch this milestone project at KEZAD, which builds on our efforts to add value to our customers across continents. The project will be our ninth industrial facility in the UAE, and several unique factors led us to choose KEZAD for this investment, including the provision of world-class infrastructure, seamless connectivity to global markets and the ability to be competitive easy access to natural gas at affordable prices.”

The agreement with the KEZAD Group will mark Dana Steel’s first joint venture in Abu Dhabi and welcome the first Hot Rolled Pickling Oiled (HRPO) and Cold Rolled (CR) steel mills in KEZAD. In addition to building a metal product manufacturing facility at KEZAD Group’s Metal Center, the plant will also have the capability to recover and recycle spent acid, allowing the company to adopt a circular economy approach. In Phase 2 of the expansion, Dana Steel will install a continuous galvanizing line (CGL) and a color coating line (CGL) at the same KEZAD complex.

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