UAE participates in Hannover Messe 2014

Abu Dhabi: The UAE is participating in Hannover Messe 2014, the world’s leading trade fair for industrial technology, which will open on Monday in the German city of Hannover.

More than 6,000 exhibitors from all parts of the world will take part in the five-day exhibition, which is expected to be visited by more than 200,000 people. The lead theme and official motto for Hannover Messe 2014 is “Integrated Industry — NEXT STEPS”.

The UAE participation in this exhibition is led by the Ministry of Economy and the Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development and will feature 35 participating entities, including 19 industries.

This big participation aims at focusing on integration in all industrial sectors and availing of machines, industrial equipment, work pieces and system components, which will soon be able to exchange data in real time, and boost efficiency, safety and resource sustainability in production and logistics; the technological development which experts have dubbed the fourth industrial revolution.

Participants in Hannover Messe 2014, besides the Ministry of the Economy and the Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development, include the Higher Corporation for Specialised Economic Zones (ZonesCorp) which embraces 18 factories within its free zone, in addition to Kizad, Etihad Rail, Abu Dhabi Chamber, Adnoc Distribution, SENAAT General Holding Corporation, Abu Dhabi Quality and Conformity Council, Ras Al Khaimah Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Ras Al Khaimah Free zone, Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Dubai Silicon Oasis and Emirates Aluminium (Emal).

Industrial development

Hamad Abdullah Al Mass, Executive Director of International Economic Relations Sector, at Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development who is lead the UAE delegation said that the UAE participation comes at a time when the industrial sector in UAE and the Emirate of Abu Dhabi in particular, is experiencing a quantum leap in development and performance, and is registering remarkable growth.

The Industrial Development Bureau of the Department of Economic Development, had identified 13 industrial sectors of focus in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, following the recommendations of the strategic plan for the Emirate, which include building materials, petrochemicals, engineered metal, iron and steel, plastic, aluminium, food industries, renewable energy, oil and gas, semiconductors, packaging industry, aviation and transportation equipment.

Non-oil exports of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi to Germany did not constitute a significant proportion of total non-oil trade between the two sides, since it amounted to Dh371.96 million, at the end of March 2013; while Abu Dhabi imports from Germany amounted to Dh6.42 billion, to result in a trade deficit of Dh5.68 billion with Germany during the same period in 2013.