/ CREATING POSSIBILITIES IN THE METALS INDUSTRY CREATING POSSIBILITIES IN THE METALS INDUSTRY IDEAL Location to Serve the Growing Markets in Middle East and Africa Presence of Anchor Industries Enabling Easy Access to Raw Materials: Aluminium & Steel Reliable supply of power, gas and water at highly competitive rates Unique Hot Metal Road to deliver Aluminium in molten form to the factory Large areas of serviced land plots for future expansions Choice of both Free Zone and Domestic Industrial Zone Facilities / KIZAD METALS CLUSTER KIZAD Metals Cluster is dedicated zone for the regional and global upstream, midstream and downstream metals industry looking to take advantage of highly competitive utility costs, proximity to raw materials and excellent infrastructure and transportation links supporting the industry. 2 CREATING POSSIBILITIES IN THE METALS INDUSTRY Major brands that are already operating out of KIZAD Metals Cluster offers the perfect platform KIZAD Metals Cluster include Emirates Global for downstream metals conversion industries Aluminium (world’s largest ‘premium aluminium’ to serve the construction, infrastructure and producer), Al Gharbia Pipe Manufacturing Company industrial development projects in the Middle East (LSAW steel pipes), TALEX (aluminium profiles and African markets. and billets), DAC Aluminum (electrical conductive grade aluminium and aluminium alloy rods, wires, Existing and upcoming projects in KIZAD Metals and bare overhead conductors), Ducast (manhole Cluster create a sustainable industrial ecosystem covers and engineering castings), GERAB (pipes covering raw material producers, wide range of and tubes, fittings, flanges, valves, stud bolts downstream manufacturers and leading recycling and gaskets), DUCAB (cables, components and and related service providers. accessories) and Cast Aluminium Industries (recycling and related services) to name a few. 3 CREATING POSSIBILITIES IN THE METALS INDUSTRY United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi #1 #1 IN THE MENA REGION IN THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES • Aluminium Exporting Country • Highest Contributor of the UAE’s GDP • Global Competitive Index1 • Highest Oil & Gas Reserves in the UAE • Global Innovation Index2 • Most Competitive Utility Rates in the UAE • Ease of Doing Business3 • Most Developed Technology Base 4 • Access to Electricity3 in the Middle East 1 World Economic Forum 2019 2 INSEAD 2019 3 World Bank 2019 4 McKinsey 2019 4 CREATING POSSIBILITIES IN THE METALS INDUSTRY WELCOME TO KIZAD DEVELOPING ONE OF THE LARGEST INDUSTRIAL AND LOGISTICS ECOSYSTEMS IN THE WORLD Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi [KIZAD], a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi Ports, is the largest industrial and free trade zone in the MENA region and offers the most competitive business setup solutions and world-class infrastructure facilities in the UAE. Spread over 410 km2, KIZAD is home to over 600 companies across industries such as Food Processing, Polymers, Metals, Automotive, Pharmaceuticals, Logistics, Oil & Gas, among others. Setting up at KIZAD enables businesses to benefit from the strategic location, faster access to markets, low set up and operational costs, flexibility in scale of operations and efficient investor support services. IDEAL LOCATION TO SERVE THE MARKETS IN THE MENA REGION Strategically located between Abu Dhabi and Dubai, the two most important economic centres of the region, KIZAD is ideally positioned to serve the key consumption markets in the GCC, Middle East and Africa. 5 CREATING POSSIBILITIES IN THE METALS INDUSTRY / Ambitious Growth Plans Driving the Industry IN THE REGION $152 44.2 BILLION DOLLARS MILLION TONS 9% Forecasted Value Middle East Crude Steel GCC Share in Global of GCC Construction Production in 2019 2 Primary Aluminium Industry by 2029 1 Production in 2019 4 $3.5 6+ BILLION DOLLARS MILLION TONS Estimated Value Expected Primary of GCC Structural Steel Aluminium Production Fabrication Market in 2018 5 in the GCC in 2020 3 1 Fitchconnect 2 World Steel Association 3 Gulf Aluminium Council 4 World Aluminium 5 Mordor Intelligence 6 CREATING POSSIBILITIES IN THE METALS INDUSTRY / UAE – a global hotspot for the metals sector 8.7 8+ 3.3 MILLION TONS MILLION TONS MILLION TONS Crude Steel Finished Steel Volume of Crude Consumption in Consumption in Steel Production the UAE in 2018 2 the UAE in 2018 2 in the UAE in 2019 2 906.2 4% KILOGRAMS UAE’s Share of Global Apparent Per Capita Steel Aluminium Production Use in the UAE in 2018 2 in 2019 1 1 World Aluminium 2 World Steel Association 7 CREATING POSSIBILITIES IN THE METALS INDUSTRY / BUSINESS ECO SYSTEM AND INFRASTRUCTURE Presence of Anchor Industries Enabling Easy Access to Raw Materials: Aluminium and Steel Abu Dhabi is home to some of the largest primary raw material suppliers in the region including Emirates Global Aluminium and Emirates Steel. Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) based out of KIZAD is the largest producer of premium Aluminium in the world. EGA shipped around 600,000 tonnes of Aluminium from Khalifa Port in 2018. Emirates Steel, based out of Abu Dhabi Industrial City (63 km from KIZAD), is the only integrated steel plant in the UAE. Emirates Steel produces key raw materials such as rebars, wire rods and heavy sections. 8 CREATING POSSIBILITIES IN THE METALS INDUSTRY EMIRATES STEEL EMIRATES GLOBAL ALUMINIUM THE ONLY INTEGRATED STEEL WORLD’S LARGEST PREMIUM PLANT IN THE UAE ALUMINIUM PRODUCER • Heavy sections (suitable for construction, • Hot metal (ready for re-melt casting) industrial and engineering applications) • Billets for extrusion and forging • Reinforcing bar (for civil engineering and (for construction, industrial, transportation building projects) and automotive purposes) • Wire rod (for engineering applications, nails, • Rolling products (for packaging, can stock pins, construction, fencing materials) alloys, lithographic sheets and the • Direct reduced iron (an alternative material automotive industry) to scrap steel) • High-purity and foundry re-melt products • Steel billets (to produce rebar, wire rod or coil) (for electronics and aerospace, as well as automotive applications) • Sheet piles (for retaining walls, land reclamation, underground structures) 9 CREATING POSSIBILITIES IN THE METALS INDUSTRY HOT METAL ROAD TO DELIVER LARGE AREAS OF SERVICED ALUMINIUM IN MOLTEN LAND PARCELS FOR FORM TO THE FACTORY FUTURE EXPANSIONS KIZAD offers innovative industry solutions such Spread over an area of 410 KM2, KIZAD can as hot metal road - a specially constructed accommodate industries of any scale due to roadway that enables the cost-effective and the meticulous master plan of the industrial energy-efficient transport and delivery of park. Large parcels of serviced land available aluminium in molten form- that gives downstream in the metals cluster are particularly suitable Aluminium industries a significant cost for upstream metals and downstream metal advantage. As melting of Aluminium is an energy conversion industries. Because KIZAD intensive process, the hot metal road helps the comprises multiple industrial cluster, land downstream industries to save significantly is allocated by grouping certain industries on their energy usage. Combined with already and service providers based on how competitive utility rates in Abu Dhabi, such best they can benefit one another. industry innovations make KIZAD a unique location for downstream metals industry. CHOICE OF FREE ZONE RELIABLE SUPPLY OF UTILITIES AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRIAL AT HIGHLY COMPETITIVE RATES ZONE FACILITIES KIZAD has sufficient network infrastructure KIZAD offers both Free Zone and Domestic for power, gas and water, ensuring reliable and Industrial Zone facilities thereby opening up a efficient supply of all necessary utilities for wide range of possibilities to suit the investors’ energy intensive entities in steel and aluminium business strategies and operations. While the downstream industries. Abu Dhabi offers the Free Zone entities can enjoy 100% foreign most competitive utility rates in the UAE, making ownership and easy customs procedures, it a very cost-efficient location for downstream manufacturing / industrial entities in manufacturing activities in the metals sector. Domestic Industrial Zone can enjoy duty-free trade in the GCC region. 10 CREATING POSSIBILITIES IN THE METALS INDUSTRY KIZAD offers a wide range of outstanding We set up base in KIZAD in 2018 and though services and business solutions that are new entities do face obstacles, KIZAD’s suitable for all types of business activities such impressive headquarters is a one-stop set-up as manufacturing, logistics, trade and distribution. service facility. The presence of many related Being stationed on the doorstep of Khalifa Port government agencies at KIZAD also saves loads among the world’s most advanced deep seaports of time and energy while setting up business, “is another logistical advantage”. “especially for SMEs”. CHRISTIAN WITSCH CHINMAY OZA CEO, TALEX CEO, ROBUST STEEL The best choice was to move to KIZAD. AGPC chose KIZAD as its base due to the The area was developed to handle the availability of land and utilities and with high impact of heavy industry. Besides, good connection to the UAE road network and KIZAD will be significant industrial hub, proximity of the new Khalifa Port. In future we especially for aluminium as entity wishes to expect most of our raw material imports as well as attract significant investments in the pipe exports to non GCC countries to be shipped “downstream industry”. “via Khalifa Port”. WAHEED AHMED MITSURU ANEZAKI GENERAL