{"id":630190,"date":"2010-01-14T02:49:22","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T07:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skyscrapercity.com\/showthread.php?t=1045019"},"modified":"2010-01-14T02:49:22","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T07:49:22","slug":"150m-sugar-factory-planned-in-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/630190","title":{"rendered":"$150m sugar factory planned in Bahrain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Arabian Sugar Company (ASC), promoted by Tanmiyat Aloula Holdings &#8211; a Bahrain firm focusing on investments in the industrial sector, will build a BD56.7 million ($150m) sugar plant to produce 585,000 tonnes of sugar a year.<\/p>\n<p>The factory will be set up within the Bahrain Industrial Investment Park in the Hidd Industrial Area and designed with European technology to produce the highest quality &#8216;Icumsa 45&#8217; sugar, said company managing director Anmar Jalil Al Arayyed.<\/p>\n<p>Construction has already begun on the site and the factory is expected to be up and running sometime next year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;A UK-based sugar technology and engineering firm, Sugar Knowledge International (Skil) will manage the project until its completion,&#8217; said Al Arayyed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It will overlook the complete construction of the plant and co-ordinate with the Spanish contractors.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Al Arayyed said Skil is a leader in the refinery engineering business and were chosen based on their long experience in the industry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The contractors were also chosen because of their international experience in setting up sugar refineries worldwide,&#8217; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Al Arayyed said although the second half of 2008 was the beginning of a difficult period for fundraising, the project stood out to many investors as an alternative to what was being offered in the market.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The support from our partners as well as the government for a project that uses state-of-the-art new equipment and limited energy resources has been critical,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We also plan to hire a substantial number of Bahrainis to produce this essential food requirement for Bahrain and the region and that fits Bahrain&#8217;s 2030 economic vision.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Al Arayyed said the project would not have been possible without the support of Bahrain&#8217;s Economic Development Board (EDB) and its chief executive Shaikh Mohammed bin Essa Al Khalifa.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The EDB were instrumental in the project staying on the right track,&#8217; he concluded. \u0096 TradeArabia News Service<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arabian Sugar Company (ASC), promoted by Tanmiyat Aloula Holdings &#8211; a Bahrain firm focusing on investments in the industrial sector, will build a BD56.7 million ($150m) sugar plant to produce 585,000 tonnes of sugar a year. The factory will be set up within the Bahrain Industrial Investment Park in the Hidd Industrial Area and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1760,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-630190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2DWm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1760"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}