In this age of big ideas it can be easy to overlook the constant innovation by companies in every industry segment, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t underway
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Week in review: Back-up gensets at Dubai landmarks
The directive to install back-up power generators at landmark developments in Dubai will comprehensively benefit the emirate’s building supply chain
Earthy ambitions: the maturing of dirt shovelling
As the pincer attack of cost and productivity close around the earthmoving segment, we see fleet operators and manufacturers chart the mature course
Pursuing performance: maturing market perspectives in the Gulf
Have motives shifted in PMV procurement in the Gulf, and has the question of price finally ceded to the question of how things perform?
Shifting motives: long-term thinking gains ground
Is longer-term thinking slowly but surely gaining ground in the region?
Sticky business: the endurance of asphalt work
In the context of widespread cutbacks in the regional construction industry, the consistency of the asphalt-laying business bucks the trend
AI supply: Logistics could look to AI for big data
Rapid growth in the logistics and supply chain segment is creating opportunities, but at the same time the talent is drying up
Tech takeover: the rise of electronics in the Gulf
Is the rising tide of electronics and circuitry finally submerging the Gulf?
Rent supreme: Regional dynamics favour rental
Aerial work platforms appears to be one of a handful of segments where the economic realities and nature of the work have crowned rental king
Global to glocal: a trend to be aware of in 2017
As the West enters an ideological state where naysaying globalisation is all the rage, the Gulf and the equipment industry present a contrary argument