Casio Computer Co. Ltd. is promoting its Exilim brand in Saudi Arabia through its agent Mahmood Saleh Abbar Co. It has the conventional features of digital cameras featuring thin and compact design, large LCD monitor, long battery life and the new capability to capture motion pictures. The new EX-P505 and EX-Z750 cameras incorporate the basic functions of a camera plus videotaping functions, thus combining both still and moving picture capabilities. The past movie function captures moving images starting five seconds before the shutter is pressed. The short movie function allows filming for eight seconds before and after the shutter is pressed. As for the motion print function, users can produce still photos from movie clips already taken by converting either nine frames or one frame of moving images to still photos. The movie playback zoom function enables zoom display during video play back. The functions have been incorporated to further enhance shooting and viewing moving images.
Amiantit Group
Composite Pipes Industry (CPI) Oman, a member company of the Amiantit Group, has been awarded two contracts by Petrol Development Oman (PDO) for a total of 101 km of glass reinforced epoxy (GRE) pipes worth more than $11 million, according to CEO Fareed Alkhalawi. The first order, valued at $5 million and already completed, was for 53 km of 16 inch Dia crude oil transmission line from Lekhware to Dulaima in Northern Oman. The second order is for 48 km of 18 inch pipeline and worth $6.1 million subcontracted from Galfar Engineering & Construction, the successful bidder for the contract to construct a pipeline to transport crude oil from Yibal to Al-Huwaisa in Oman. CPI will design, test, manufacture and supply the GRE pipes, and also supervise installation of the entire 24 km x 2 pipeline. GRE pipes fulfill the energy sector’s demand for corrosion free piping systems and are used by the oil, gas and petrochemical industries. Amiantit operates four full-scale GRE production plants in GCC, including the Amiantit Epoxy Pipe Production Plant (Amipox) in Dammam, a SR30 million state-of-the-art manufacturing facility. Amipox high performance GRE products serve a variety of markets including industrial, oilfield, chemical, offshore, and marine. In addition to being corrosion free, GRE pipes are lightweight, easy to transport and easy to install. They are used as a cost effective alternative to metallic piping, which often degrades and fails due to corrosion.
UMA
Universal Motor Agencies (UMA), a General Motors dealership in Saudi Arabia, has appointed Landmark Public Relations as its PR consultant to promote the company’s corporate strategies and customer satisfaction programs that adhere to global retail standards and benchmarks. “UMA’s experience in the Kingdom’s car market is long established and we continue to build on our considerable success and experience in dealing with customers who demand top quality products backed by a professional service. We’re confident that our business relationship with Landmark Public Relations will provide greater impetus to our efforts to set new standards in excellence for car dealerships in the region,” UMA’s COO Walid Al-Telmesani said. “Landmark’s extensive industry experience, especially in the Kingdom will provide the right kind of synergy to further strengthen UMA’s brand positioning in the market. We look forward to sharing our considerable regional and local management expertise with UMA as they adopt new strategies to gain great customer confidence,” Landmark Public Relations Chairman Talal Dhulaymi said.
Hanjin
Hanjin Shipping Co. Ltd., Senator Lines and United Arab Shipping Co. (UASC) will upgrade their Europe-Middle East-Asia service (MEA) covering Asia, including China, Middle East and the Mediterranean, jointly with Mitsui OSK lines Ltd. (MOL) in late summer of the year. The new cooperation will start from around the end of August and will make it possible to upsize capacity and lineup similar capacity type of vessels in the service. Providing weekly, fixed weekday port calls, the new EMA service will deploy eight vessels of about 3,000 TEU capacity - Hanjin will operate four vessels, and MOL and UASC two each. The new EMA service will have the following rotation: Shanghai, Yantian, Singapore Genoa, Fos, Valencia, Gioia Tauro, Jeddah, Khor Fakkan, Singapore and back to Shanghai.
Uttar Bahrain
Uttar Bahrain opened two new branches in Makkah and Dhahran. “The new branches will ensure new job opportunities for Saudis in the perfumes sector,” Uttar Bahrain Company General Manager Khalid Al-Amoudi. “Such jobs do not involve high qualification and intensive training and so they can easily contribute toward partly tackling unemployment among young Saudis,” he said. According to Al-Amoudi, Uttar Bahrain is continuing the activities of Sayed Junaid Alam Corporation, the owner of the oldest Orient Perfumes Plant in the Gulf. It provides the local market with different products that suit local tastes. “Together with Sayed Junaid Alam Corporation, we’ll be able to come up with new products with ingredients of both oriental and Western perfumes thus offering a pleasant blend of fragrances to meet Saudi requirements,” he said.
