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Saudi aluminium producer Talco is offering 12 million shares

Aluminium producer Talco announces Saudi IPO

Aluminium producer Al Taiseer Group Talco Industrial Company (Talco) is the latest entity to reveal initial public offering (IPO) plans in Saudi Arabia. The Riyadh-based company, which was set up in 2009, is offering 12 million shares, a 30 percent stake, on the Saudi Exchange (Tadawul) at a nominal value of SAR10 ($2.67) per share. […]

Waleed bin Ibrahim Al Ibrahim, CEO of MBC Group, which raised $222 million with its IPO

Saudi Arabia dominates Mena Q1 public listings

Saudi Arabia dominated public listings in the region in the first quarter of the year and maintains a “healthy pipeline” of IPOs for the remainder of 2024. Nine companies were brought to market in Saudi Arabia during the opening three months, according to the latest report from global consultants EY. The kingdom’s largest, and the […]

Acwa Power's desalination plant in Senegal will have a capacity of 400,000 cubic metres per day

Acwa Power to build $800m desalination plant in Senegal

Acwa Power, Saudi Arabia’s operator of power generation and desalinated water production plants, will construct a SAR3 billion ($800 million) desalination plant in Dakar, Senegal. The company signed an agreement with Senegal’s ministry of water and sanitation and state-backed National Water Company, to build a 400,000 cubic metres per day desalination plant in Dakar. The […]

Saudia Arabia spent $69.1 billion on defence in 2023, and Saudi Chemical Company is a major supplier of military and civilian explosives

Probe after accident in Saudi explosives factory

An investigation is under way after two men died in an accident at a Saudi Arabian explosives factory. Saudi Chemical Company Holding said the accident at the Riyadh factory of its subsidiary Saudi Chemical Company, which makes civil and military explosives led to the death of two workers. In two separate filings to the Saudi […]

Visitors inspect a combat helicopter at a Riyadh defence show. Saudi Arabia is one of the world's biggest military spenders

Zamil wins $153m deal to build Saudi defence complex

A Dammam construction company has won a SAR575 million ($153 million) contract to build a defence manufacturing complex in Al Kharj, central Saudi Arabia. Zamil Steel Construction Company agreed the deal with Saudi Arabian Military Industries (Sami), a Public Investment Fund company set up to lead the development of the kingdom’s defence industry. The Al […]

Saudi Arabia's Rabigh 4 desalination plant has a capacity of up to 600,000 cubic metres per day

Acwa Power secures $545m for Saudi desalination project

Saudi Arabian energy developer Acwa Power has secured funding of SAR2.045 billion ($545.3 million) for the Rawabi Water Desalination Company (Rabigh 4) independent water plant project in Saudi Arabia. The funding came from a consortium of local and global banks, including Standard Chartered Bank, Saudi National Bank, Riyadh Bank, The Saudi Investment Bank and Bank […]

Acwa Power Egypt loans

Acwa Power secures $123m for Egyptian solar project

Acwa Power, the Saudi-based energy developer, has secured $123 million of loans to reach financial close on a $182 million solar project in Egypt. The financing for the Kom Ombo solar plant, which will add 200MW of energy capacity, comes from a range of banks and funds. According to a filing to the Saudi Stock […]

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ACWA Power signs $2.4bn wind farm deal in Uzbekistan

Saudi-listed ACWA Power has signed a power acquisition deal with the National Electric Grid of Uzbekistan to build three wind power plants in the country. According to a bourse filing to the Tadawul exchange, the $2.4 billion Kungrad wind farm project in the north-western Karakalpakstan district of Uzbekistan, will be implemented through special purpose vehicles. […]

Aluminium Bahrain BSC is the first aluminium smelter in the Middle East

Alba confirms it is ‘exploring’ listing in Saudi Arabia

Bahrain’s sovereign wealth fund Mumtalakat is considering a secondary listing of Aluminium Bahrain BSC (Alba) on Saudi Arabia’s Tadawul stock market. Alba said in a statement to the Bahrain Stock Exchange yesterday it is “exploring various opportunities, one of which is a potential secondary listing on Saudi Arabia’s Stock Exchange which is currently under evaluation […]