ADNOC awards manufacturing contracts worth $196.2M

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ADNOC has awarded contracts valued at AED 720 million ($196.2 million) to 11 companies for local manufacturing of a wide range of product across the value chain. 

The contracts enabled by ADNOC’s In-Country Value (ICV) programme and support the Make it in the Emirates (MIITE) initiative. Separately, ADNOC’s partners inaugurated eight UAE manufacturing facilities at ADIPEC, taking the total number of facilities enabled by the ICV programme to 16 this year and 33 in total since the start of the MIITE initiative.

At the Business Partnership Forum, ADNOC detailed a wide range of commercial opportunities across its value chain and encouraged the private sector to capitalize on these opportunities and establish and expand manufacturing capacity in the UAE. ADNOC also launched its “Responsible Sourcing Programme,” a new initiative that will ensure greater transparency and encourage sustainable procurement practices within its supply chain.

Yaser Saeed Almazrouei, ADNOC Executive Director, People, Commercial & Corporate Support, said, “In collaboration with our partners in the private sector, ADNOC continues to drive sustainable value for the UAE and create opportunities for people and local businesses to thrive. Through our In-Country Value programme, we are boosting the UAE’s manufacturing capacity, enhancing self-sufficiency and reinforcing our role as a catalyst for the nation’s growth and diversification. We extend an open invitation to UAE and international companies to partner with us and explore the long-term manufacturing opportunities we are creating.”

ADNOC’s Business Partnership Forum brought together suppliers, UAE-based companies, and government stakeholders to explore opportunities and establish private-public partnerships that drive socioeconomic progress and boost UAE’s industrial ecosystem.

A panel session on “Advancing Partnerships to Sustain Mutual Growth” was held at the forum and featured Ahmed Helal Al Blooshi, Executive Director of the Economic Strategy Sector at the Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development; Hareb Al Muhairi, Executive Director at the Abu Dhabi Investment Office; and Mohamed Eissa Al Refaei, Executive Director of the Business Networking Sector at the Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Since its inception in 2018, ADNOC’s ICV programme has successfully reinjected AED187 billion ($51 billion) into the UAE’s economy and reduced the UAE's reliance on imports by establishing local manufacturing capabilities. Building on this success, ADNOC’s is aiming to drive an additional AED178 billion back into the UAE’s economy by 2028.

ADNOC’s ICV programme has also created 14,000 job opportunities for Emirati talents in the private sector in collaboration with NAFIS and is aiming to create an additional 13,500 new jobs by 2028.

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