Austrian company DCM, a mining and marketing house offering a wide range of products and services to the steel industry worldwide, has opened an office in Dubai, and celebrated with a launch party held at Madinat Jumeirah.
Speaking at the commemorative opening party, Barry Gidwani, managing director, DCM Middle East said: “We have more than 50 years of marketing steel-making raw material worldwide with our global marketing network spanning over 50 countries. We view North Africa and the Middle East as high growth and high priority markets. In recent years, as Dubai’s growth has taken off, we have steadily increased supplies to the region. Hence our new office in Dubai, which will be based at the Atrium Tower in Bank Street, Bur Dubai and will be fully operation from June 2005”.
The office will handle business requirements for Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. It will also encompass the African region including Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and South Africa.
The launch party was held on 3 May at Trilogy in Madinat Jumeirah followed by a presentation and dinner at Shimmers on the beach. Those in attendance included Dr Nikolaus Seiwald, Commercial Chancellor at the Austrian Embassy, Dr Gerald Kriechbaum, Austrian Ambassador, based in Abu Dhabi, and Mrs. Mashid Amir-Mokri, Managing Director of nemsacon, a consultancy operation, which helps Austrian businesses establish themselves in the Gulf.
DCM markets high grade manganese and chromium ore in Australia and iron ore in Ukraine, which it ships to Europe and the Middle East. It trades principally in iron ores, bulk ferro-alloys and noble alloys directly from producers, which it then sells to customers worldwide. These include silico manganese, ferro managanese, ferro silicon, ferro chrome, ferro molybdenum, ferro vanadium and ferro titatinum for the steel industry in Europe, the Americas and the Middle East.
DCM also operates financing, logistics and warehousing division to meet customer needs: all aspects of transportation and the supply of bulk commodities, as well as just-in-time deliveries through its international warehousing network.
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