The UAE’s Metal Park has signed a strategic settlement with the World Steel Association and the Belgium-headquartered Steel University, establishing a national-level alliance to develop a completely built-in metals training and functionality ecosystem for the Center East.
Witnessed by H.E. Dr. Sultan Jaber, Minister of Trade and Superior Expertise; Captain Mohamed Juma Al Shamisi, managing director and group CEO of AD Ports Group; and Mr. Vahid Fouladkar, CEO of Metallic Park and signed by Navid Fouladkar, head of strategic partnerships at Metallic Park, and Jorge Muract, director of Metal College.
This milestone partnership straight helps the UAE’s industrial imaginative and prescient beneath Make it within the Emirates and Operation 300bn, reinforcing the nation’s ambition to construct globally aggressive, value-added steel manufacturing capabilities from inside the UAE.
The alliance positions Metallic Park not solely as industrial infrastructure, however because the execution layer the place training, requirements, expertise, and manufacturing converge right into a single working ecosystem.
Vahid Fouladkar, CEO of Metallic Park, mentioned: “This alliance marks a defining step in how industrial development is constructed and sustained within the area. Metallic Park was conceived as greater than bodily infrastructure – it’s an working ecosystem the place requirements, expertise, functionality, and manufacturing are developed collectively.
“By partnering with the World Metal Affiliation and Metal College, we’re embedding international greatest practices straight into the economic surroundings, guaranteeing that training interprets into measurable efficiency, competitiveness, and long-term nationwide worth for the UAE.”
Jorge Muract, director of Metal College, mentioned: “The alliance seeks to safe the business expertise pipeline via sturdy collaboration and alignment amongst academia, business, its worth chain, and authorities as a key enabler of this interplay, whereas additionally offering agile infrastructure to constantly upskill and reskill the workforce and maintain innovation in manufacturing methods.
“Collectively, we purpose to develop high-quality studying and know-how options that construct a extra environment friendly and dynamic workforce. On the identical time, the alliance seeks to affix efforts with related initiatives in Europe, Saudi Arabia, India and Latin America to create a worldwide training and coaching ecosystem that permits expertise mobility and ensures equal entry to training and coaching, fostering social innovation worldwide.”
Abdullah Al Hameli, CEO of Financial Cities and Free Zones, AD Ports Group, mentioned: “This settlement strengthens the muse of our industrial ecosystem by aligning international requirements with native manufacturing functionality. KEZAD Group not solely offers infrastructure, but additionally allows efficiency.
“By embedding internationally recognised experience from the World Metal Affiliation and Metal College straight into Metallic Park’s working surroundings, we’re accelerating the event of superior industrial expertise, elevating productiveness, and enhancing the competitiveness of UAE-based producers.
“This initiative straight helps nationwide industrial priorities beneath Make it within the Emirates and Operation 300bn, and reinforces Abu Dhabi’s place as a globally aggressive hub for value-added steel manufacturing, pushed by functionality, requirements, and long-term industrial resilience.”
From international requirements to industrial output
On the core of the settlement is a shared dedication to reworking expertise growth into measurable industrial efficiency.
By collaboration with the World Metal Affiliation and Metal College, Metallic Park will embed internationally recognised requirements, certifications, technical frameworks, and sector intelligence straight into its working surroundings – guaranteeing training is utilized on the factory-floor degree, not summary.
This ecosystem-driven mannequin ensures that studying, certification, and greatest practices translate into larger productiveness, improved high quality, and enhanced competitiveness throughout UAE-based steel manufacturing.
Advancing nationwide industrial priorities and regional workforce functionality
The partnership straight contributes to the aims of Make it within the Emirates and Operation 300bn by:
- Strengthening home steel and metal industrial functionality
- Growing future-ready technical, engineering, and operational expertise
- Embedding international requirements into native manufacturing environments
- Enhancing the long-term competitiveness and resilience of regional manufacturing
By connecting international business management with Metallic Park’s built-in infrastructure, the alliance ensures that industrial development is powered by world-class property, requirements, and other people.
Constructing the Center East’s metals training and functionality ecosystem
The settlement underpins Metallic Park’s long-term imaginative and prescient to determine the area’s most complete metals training and functionality ecosystem – spanning foundational expertise, superior metallurgy, engineering, processing, and operational excellence.
This phased, scalable method ensures that functionality constructing is aligned with actual industrial demand, nationwide priorities, and long-term sustainability.
Metallic Park views this settlement as a basis for broader collaboration. Delivering a globally recognised industrial expertise and requirements ecosystem would require continued engagement with authorities entities, regulators, educational establishments, and business companions – anchored by Metallic Park because the ecosystem platform.
