Official launch of Ducab’s Special Cable Unit (SCU) in honour of company’s 30th anniversary.

“As our regional economies continue to grow, the need for electricity and power infrastructure grows too,” added Al Shaikh. “The Ducab HV factory is designed to meet these needs supporting ADWEA, DEWA and other regional utilities with the highest quality High Voltage and Extra High Voltage cables.”

Ducab has come a long way in the past 30 years, originally starting from just a single factory in Jebel Ali. Today, the company operates five factories across the UAE with over 900 employees. With a manufacturing capacity of 110,000 tonnes annually, Ducab’s market share is about 50% locally, with substantial exports to other GCC countries

The late Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, former Ruler of Dubai and grandfather of Sheikh Majid, opened Ducab 30 years ago in partnership with the UK company BICC Cables. As the years passed, Ducab began expanding its product line and also entered into the cable accessories and components market. By the 1990s, Ducab was achieving sales of over AED 200m (USD $54.2m) and by 2008 these had grown to AED 3.2 billion. Ducab was also the first Gulf manufacturing company to obtain ISO 9001:1994 and ISO 14001 Environment Management Standard certifications.

Last year, Ducab commissioned a major expansion of their Abu Dhabi facilities with the addition of a new factory, the UAE’s first copper rod mill. The company’s current product line includes the full range of LV and MV power cables; Fire Performance Instrumentation and Control Cables—which include single and multi-core Fire Resistant cables; Low Smoke and Fume Cables; Instrumentation and Pilot cables; and Flexible wires.

Ducab’s tailor-made, advanced-cable solutions have laid the foundation for major projects ranging from world-renowned hotels to hospitals to government utilities. Some of the landmark projects powered by Ducab include the Burj Dubai, Palm Jumeriah, Dubai Metro, Gasco Ruwais, Delhi Metro, Lulu Island Bahrain, and Ras Laffan Qatar, among others.