MIPIM Asia 2025 – Saudi Arabia Leads the Way Amid New Opportunities for Expansion
Across the GCC, governments are racing to pivot away from traditional sources of wealth towards bricks, mortar and digital infrastructure.…
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Snapshot: Inside Saudi Arabia’s Water Market
Saudi Arabia is building water infrastructure at scale. With no perennial rivers and limited aquifers, the Kingdom has placed desalination,…
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Major structural shifts set to put industrial businesses to the test
From hyper-optimized to shock-resistant The industrial sector is under intense pressure from a confluence of geopolitical, economic and technological forces.…
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Q&A with Saudi Water Partnership Company (SWPC): Attracting Global PPP Developers to the Kingdom’s Water Future
Setting the Scene SWPC is Saudi Arabia’s single principal buyer and the PPP procurer across production, transmission and storage +…
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Smart Industry at Scale: Technologies Transforming Industrial Performance
The software revolution in heavy industry A quiet revolution is under way on the factory floor. What began as experimental…
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Delivering infrastructure at scale in Saudi Arabia: The Yanbu 4 Independent Water Project
With no permanent rivers and only limited groundwater reserves, Saudi Arabia faces water challenges like few other nations. It has…
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Protectionism and sustainability squeeze industrials as firms vie to keep up
The industrials complex under pressure The global industrials sector enters the latter half of 2025 in a state of unusual…
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Financing the Flow: How MENA’s Water Sector is Reshaping Global Infrastructure Finance
In Saudi Arabia alone, contract awards worth almost US $154 billion were signed over the course of 2024 - the…
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Industrials M&A: strategic themes drive dealmaking
Against a backdrop of persistent macroeconomic uncertainties and disruptive global events, dealmakers in the industrials sector executed 838 transactions totaling…
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Smart, Sustainable, Saline – Why MENA’s Water Sector is Attracting New Developers
As of July 2025, a keyword search for “desalination” projects in MEED’s project database points to major paradigm shift. Some…