Tadmur Holding, one of Qatar’s leading business groups owning and operating a number of multi-disciplinary subsidiaries across the country, is set to export some of its world-class ‘Made-in-Qatar’ products to overseas markets, including to many European countries, according to a senior official of the company.  

The Company, immediately after the economic blockade in June 2017, made some critical investment decisions and established and expanded new factories to manufacture several key products such as construction chemicals and other products that find use in the construction sector.

This became possible with the valuable support and cooperation extended by government and other state-backed agencies  as part of government’s efforts to achieve self-sufficiency and economic diversification.

Tadmur group is a premier supplier of a wide range of products and services to the construction and associated infrastructure sector in Qatar. It is one of the several other companies that ramped-up production after the unjust economic blockade by setting up new production and manufacturing facilities.

“The blockade was indeed a challenging for us, but it also offered a lot of opportunities for local businesses in so many sectors that nobody would have thought to enter into in normal circumstance,” Omar Halawa, Business Development Manager at Tadmur Trading, a subsidiary of Tadmur Holding, told The Peninsula in an interview recently.

Halawa added: “After the economic blockade on Qatar, Tadmur group launched three new factories, including the ASAS Construction Chemicals Factory, Tadmur Pump Factory and Tadmur Solid Surface Factory. The chemical factor is a state-of-art facility manufacturing high quality chemical formulations for construction, petrochemicals, and oil & gas sectors. It began operations some 18 months ago, and today it has become a leading construction chemical factory in Qatar, which produces more than 120 categorised products, the only one which does that in the country.”

He further added that a wide-range of Tadmur group’s products is specified with Ashghal (Public Works Authority). The company has formed joint ventures with foreign companies, including a leading UK-based firm to export its products to other markets such as Asia, Europe and Africa.

“We have also negotiated with one of the leading suppliers of construction chemicals, and we are producing for that brand name in Qatar. And soon Made-in-Qatar construction chemicals and other products will be available in international markets,” he said.

He said that in addition to construction chemicals, there are many other products of Tadmur group which are going to be exported to other markets very soon. The company is taking the needful steps in this regard. 

He noted that due to the nature and characteristics of several products, especially those which cannot be sourced from other countries by ship, Tadmur group started to produce them domestically to become self-reliant and cost efficient. 

Tadmur’s Pump Factory is now manufacturing a wide range of pumps such as chilled water pumps, dewatering pumps, booster sets control panels and many other products. While its Solid Surface Factory is also producing several products related to solid surface architectural features. Its products has been extensively used in Doha Metro and other projects, according to Halawa. 

“The 2020 started very good for us and we hope that the demand will continue to remain robust for the year and beyond. In fact the demand for our products and services picked up momentum from the fourth quarter of last year itself. It is going on really well. We are involved with many big projects in Qatar,” he added. 

“As everything is locally produced and there will be no delay in delivery of goods that were earlier sourced from outside and we are now offering complete solution.  This has opened huge market opportunities for many other local companies which were earlier depended for supplies on other countries.”