Abu Dhabi’s Al Ruwais Industrial City is set to receive around $10 billion in capital investment for new chemicals production under a strategic collaboration between TA’ZIZ and Alpha Dhabi Holding. Subject to final investment decisions and regulatory approvals, the partnership plans to develop production capacity for up to 14 chemicals, adding approximately 2.2 million tonnes per annum (tpa) of new capacity across the UAE’s industrial and chemicals manufacturing sector.

The planned chemical portfolio includes styrene and polystyrene, acrylic acid and derivatives, polyols, MDI, epoxy resins and linear alpha-olefins. These materials are expected to support key downstream industries including construction, automotive and consumer goods, while helping substitute selected products currently imported into the UAE. The development is also expected to strengthen local manufacturing capabilities, supply-chain resilience and domestic industrial production.

The collaboration is being advanced through a joint feasibility and market study, with the proposed facilities benefiting from synergies across feedstock sourcing, utilities, infrastructure and integrated industrial facilities. The development aligns with the UAE’s industrial strategy and the Make it in the Emirates Initiative, supporting the expansion of chemicals, plastics and sustainable materials manufacturing and creating new opportunities across the industrial value chain.

Separately, TA’ZIZ and Proman have reached financial close on $2 billion in financing for the UAE’s first world-scale methanol plant in Al Ruwais Industrial City. The facility will have a production capacity of 1.8 million tpa and will supply methanol to domestic and international markets. Together, these developments reinforce Al Ruwais Industrial City’s growing role as a major hub for chemicals manufacturing, downstream industrial production and integrated supply-chain development in the UAE.