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2/8/24, 10:55 AM Dubatt unveils UAE’s first integrated battery recycling plant – The Gulf Time Newspaper
Dubatt unveils UAE’s first integrated battery

recycling plant

DUBAI / WAM

Dubatt Battery Recycling’s fully integrated battery recycling plant — the first of its kind in the UAE — has
been formally inaugurated at Dubai Industrial City, part of TECOM Group PJSC.
Present at the inauguration were Abdullah bin Touq Al Marri, Minister of Economy; Dr Amna bint Abdullah Al

Dahak Al Shamsi, Minister of Climate Change and the Environment; Mariam bint Mohammed Almheiri, Head
of the International Affairs Office at the Presidential Court; and Omar Al Suwaidi, Under-Secretary of the

Ministry Industry and Advanced Technology.
Also in attendance were Dawood Al-Hajri, Director-General of Dubai Municipality; Mohammed Shael Al
Saadi, CEO of Dubai Corporation for Consumer Protection and Fair Trade (CCPFT); Mohamed Sharaf,

COO of Investment Attraction at Dubai DET; Yousuff Ali, Chairman and Managing Director of Lulu Group
International; and P.K. Kunchalikkutty, Member of Legislative Assembly and Former Minister of Industries,
Government of Kerala.

The government dignitaries were welcomed by Abdulla Belhoul, CEO of TECOM Group PJSC;
Shamsudheen Binmohideen, Chairman of Dubatt; and Saud Abu Alshawareb, Executive Vice President of

Industrial at TECOM Group PJSC, among other senior officials. Dubatt signed a musataha agreement
during the inauguration ceremony to expand the plant, raising its total investment at Dubai Industrial City to
AED 216 million. The factory is aligned with the goals of the UAE Industrial Decarbonisation Roadmap, the

UAE Circular Economy Policy 2031, and Dubai Integrated Waste Management Strategy 2041 to stimulate
sustainable industrial and economic development.

The ingots manufactured at Dubatt’s plant will be used to produce new batteries, creating a circular

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