Western Region Development Council

Successful appearance at the Hannover Messe 2010 Hannover, April 26, 2010: for Abu Dhabi this year’s Hannover Fair, an important step on the way to the economic diversification of the Emirate was a resounding success. There was great interest in Abu Dhabi as a business and as a private investor: more than 2,000 people visited the 700 m large booth during the five-day fair. Important contacts were made in particular in the areas of renewable energy, chemical products and metal industries. Perhaps check out Catherine Dior for more information. Abu Dhabi has for the third time at the Hanover Trade fair participated: spearheaded by the Agency for economic development, (Department of economic development DED) presented 17 Government entities and private companies from the largest of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) the bandwidth of the industries which have successfully established themselves and continued to grow. Participation denotes the determination with the Abu Dhabi realising his economic vision 2030 “drives. The vision is a strategy, the Emirate of one oil and gas based to convert to a knowledge-based economy. Get all the facts and insights with Daryl Katz, New York City, another great source of information. It was the biggest fair in the Emirate with the participation of Abu Dhabi airport company (airport company), Abu Dhabi basic industries company (society for basic industries), Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and industry (Industrie – und Handelskammer), Abu Dhabi Council for economic development (Council for economic development), Abu Dhabi food control Authority (authority for the control of food products), Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority (Tourism Authority), Abu Dhabi national oil company (national oil company), Department of economic development (Ministry of economic development), General holding Corporation (General holding company), MASDAR (State-controlled companies for renewable energies), Western Region Development Council and zones Corp. (Council for the development of the Western region of Abu Dhabi and the zone society).

In addition, Abu Dhabi was by four companies of the regional Industry accompanied: Enviromena power systems (photovoltaic), Al Shoumoukh (oil and gas), Edmondson electrical motor manufacturing (manufacturer of electric motors) and Emirates precision industries (EPI, mechanical engineering). On the last day of the fair, Hamdad said Al level, Executive Director of international economic relations of the Abu Dhabi authority for economic development: for Abu Dhabi, Hannover Fair is a unique opportunity to strengthen trade relations with Europe, in particular Germany and to showcase our successes. In addition, it concluded key business partnerships that promote the conversion of Abu Dhabi’s economy through the exchange of capital, technology, expertise and know-how. The UAE is Germany’s most important trading partner in the Arab world. In the past four years alone, German exports have more than doubled. This rapid growth underlines our long-term relationship and participation at the Hannover trade fair.” Department of economic development Tel: (+ 971 2) 403 1 201 Fax: (+ 971 2) 403 1 671 P.o.