Miller Magazine Issue: 134 February 2021

28 NEWS MILLER / february 2021 Al-Hazaa Investment Group, which owns and operates several flour mills in the Middle East has recently acquired a new flour mill in Al-Fujairah, UAE to expand its flour milling capacity in the UAE to 600t/ day and its storage capacity to 50,000 tons. Al-Hazaa acquires Ocean Mills in Al-Fujairah Al-Hazaa Group has already been operating in UAE since 2010 through its flour mills Al-Ain in Ajman. And due to the increased demand on the Group’s products, the group decided to acquire a new mill to support the existing one in supplying flour to custo- mers. This acquisition of the new mill will help Al-Ha- zaa Group to increase its market share and to focus on expanding its products ranges in the UAE. The new Mill in Al-Fujairah, has its own wharf on the sea port, which will facilitate ships unloading of grains and transporting them to both mills of Al-Ha- zaa in the country. This new location on the Arabian Sea will increase the group’s competitiveness in the UAE and will increase its export opportunities to ne- ighboring countries that consume large quantities of flour, such as the Iraqi and the Yemeni markets. Al-Hazaa Investment Group is one of the largest investment groups in the region that operates in the fields of grain milling, grain storage, animal feed, noodles and pasta production and in the plas- tic industry. It is a family group that was founded in early 1940’s, its first project was a flour mill in Iraq. The Group has ever since continuously evolved and has as a result consolidated its presence and repu- tation in the region as one of the most dynamic and successful family groups. It now operates more than ten mills in five countries in the Middle East, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Cyprus, with a total production capacity of over 4,000 MT/Day.