Industry

With an ambitious expansion plan in its petrochemicals and chemicals sector, Abu Dhabi is most notably pushing ahead in plastics and fertilisers. The several new petrochemicals projects due to come on-line in 2013-17 should make a substantial contribution to Abu Dhabi’s Economic Vision 2030 by creating a more diversified economy in which a larger...

The government is investing in a series of large industrial developments as it endeavours to diversify the economy beyond hydrocarbons, a key aim of its Economic Vision 2030, a master development strategy that is to reshape the emirate’s economy over the next two decades. In the coming five years, growth in the sector is likely to be driven...

As developers rush to cash in on Abu Dhabi’s retail market, which they deem to be relatively untapped and undersupplied, total retail space is expanding at one of the fastest rates in the region. International brands are looming larger, especially at the top end of the market, where expensive cars and other luxury goods are being sold at record...