PIF Buying 30% Stake in Saudi Tabreed

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PIF Buying 30% Stake in Saudi Tabreed

The Public Investment Fund (PIF) logo
The Public Investment Fund (PIF) logo

Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) has acquired a 30% stake in cooling company Saudi Tabreed through a private placement of shares, according to a bourse filing on Wednesday.

The sale is subject to completion procedures.

United Arab Emirates-listed National Central Cooling Company, known as Tabreed, has also boosted its stake in the Saudi venture to 21.8% after acquiring additional shares from Al Mutlaq Group for Industrial Investments for 55 million Saudi riyals ($14.63 million), the bourse filing said.

On Tuesday, Bloomberg News reported that the PIF's stake in Saudi Tabreed could be worth about $250 million.

The company provides district cooling services to major urban developments across Saudi Arabia and the Gulf region.



Egyptian Firms Sign Final Contracts with Chinese Consortium to Build Chemical Plant

A general view of the Nile River from the Egyptian capital, Cairo (Reuters).
A general view of the Nile River from the Egyptian capital, Cairo (Reuters).
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Egyptian Firms Sign Final Contracts with Chinese Consortium to Build Chemical Plant

A general view of the Nile River from the Egyptian capital, Cairo (Reuters).
A general view of the Nile River from the Egyptian capital, Cairo (Reuters).

Several Egyptian companies signed on Sunday final contracts with a Chinese consortium comprising China State Engineering Corp and East China Engineering Science and Technology Company to build a phosphoric acid plant in Egypt's New Valley area, Reuters reported.

The plant, which has an investment value of $658 million, will have the capacity to produce 250,000 tons of concentrated phosphoric acid in the first phase of the project, Egypt's petroleum ministry said in a statement.

Egyptian participants in the project include leading fertilizer producer, Abu Qir Fertilizers, state-owned Misr Phosphate and others.