Exhibitors Information

Middle East’s Demand for Steel Fabrication is at its Peak

Prospects for the Middle East’s steel fabrication industry have never looked this better with infrastructure and industrial development placed high on the agenda of the region’s respective governments, complemented by stabilized oil prices, spending on new infrastructure, construction, industrial and oil&gas projects in the respective GCC Countries are at an all time high. With this steady flow of new projects, fabrication yards have been kept busy at full capacity, trying to meet a constantly increasing market demand for fabricated steel ,currently estimated at 750,000 tons in the region. This increased activity has in turn led to a surge in demand for machinery, equipment and consumables needed by steel fabricators, making the region one of the fastest growing and lucrative markets for suppliers of the steel fabrication industry.

An opportune time to break in…at the same time, the world wide shortage in steel and cut in steel quota for the Middle East have made it imperative for steel fabricators to increase their competitiveness and efficiency. Accordingly, MEM 2005 will give an opportune time to break in. We are giving all the fabricators a chance to explore new alternative products, technologies and a platform to choose new suppliers, thus giving the fabricators a chance to meet and implement all the latest technologies to increase their market.

The Middle East is an important region for the world steel trade. A market which attracts surplus steel from most regions of the world ,where there is excess capacity, the Middle East had until recently benefited from easy access to non-native supplies. Thus, availability has been seriously threatened by surging demand in the Far East and the Local steel Industry has sought to grow in order to reduce import dependency.

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Facts & Figures

From 1990 till 2003 ,crude steel production in the Middle east has grown by about 6% per year compared to just 0.8% increase in world Production, and thus making this region one of the fastest growing producers in the world. In 2002 ,the total production of finished steel products in the region were close to 31 million tons ,attaining 3.8% of the global production .Out of these 31 million tons,23 million tons were in long products. In the next 5 years ,the total steel production is expected to increase to 26 million tons of long products and 13 million tons of flat products.

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Exhibitors

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MEM 2005 co-organized by METEF

Edimet Spa - the owner of METEF is organizing the MEM 2005 in cooperation with Trans Continental Fairs Management . METEF known for its 1st Metal international Exhibition, will be involved in Organizing the MEM from this edition onwards and also help promotion this event. This joint venture will add in more professionalism in conducting the exhibition and promises to bring in a better outcome.

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Visitors of MEM 2005

MEM 2005 is an event that will have a pan-GCC coverage attracting visitors from the UAE and its neighboring countries like Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Iran in addition to North African Countries.

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Marketplace Figures GCC Highlights

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MESTEEL is supporting MEM 2005

“MESTEEL.COM", the B2B steel portal for Middle East and a major exhibition place for suppliers and clients of the Middle East steel industry, is supporting the MEM. MESTEEL believes, it is important to show the latest technologies, services and production possibilities to this fast expanding market and will promote this exhibition to their 2000 active members and more than 100,000 monthly web visitors.

Who Is MESTEEL?

MEsteel.com provides steel news, technical steel information and a database of steel buyers, sellers and service providing companies in the Middle East. As such, it act as a common advertising panel for steel related companies in this area. By now, it is one of the best organized e-commerce portals in its field.

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Prices

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Floor Plan

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