Kizad mineral storage center at 110 million dirhams

Khalifa Economic areas Abu Dhabi – Kizad Group and Metal Park announced the launch of the first phase of the developed mineral storage center in the Metal Complex in Kizad, which will provide global level storage solutions, and integrated support services for companies operating in the mineral sector in the region.

A statement, issued yesterday, stated that “Metal Park” aims to complete the metal storage center within the Kizad Free Zone in three stages, at a cost of 110 million dirhams, and its total storage capacity will reach 350 thousand metric tons, in addition to 54 thousand cubic meters of metal storage shelves.

The center, the first of its kind in the world, is the “payment by use” system in the metal sector, as well as being the first fully dedicated warehouse for storing metal.

The first phase of the project extends over an area of ​​93 thousand square meters, and will include 26 upper cranes, with a capacity of up to 40 metric tons, in addition to 55 loading platforms for trucks and self -driving vehicles «AGVS), allowing the handling of 48 thousand metric tons per day.

The center is also characterized by other advanced technologies that include vertical storage, loading trucks with the “cantilever” kabuli system, and three bridge scales – two of which are 15 meters long, and the ability of each of them reaches 150 metric tons, and another balance of 30 meters, and its capacity reaches 150 meters, and the metal storage center is characterized by a closed complex and equipped with the latest monitoring means.

“The launch of the storage center, the first of its kind, represents a qualitative shift in the march of (Metal Park), the economic cities sector and free zones, within the framework of the group’s endeavor to develop and expand a specialized area in the mineral sector,” said Abdullah Al -Hamli, CEO of Economic Cities and Free Zones at Abu Dhabi Ports Group, Abdullah Al -Hamli.

For his part, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of “Metal Park”, Saleh Shahristani, said that “the Metal Storage Center is the only warehouse of its kind in the Middle East designed specifically to meet the needs of the metal sector at this level of efficiency.”