Made in Qatar: Meet the companies putting Qatar’s exports on the map

Qatari industry is thriving. One such firm is Suhail Industries. Back in 2012 Suhail Industries was a battery recycling factory. Since then, it’s grown into an industrial powerhouse that includes recycling and manufacturing bronze, copper, aluminium and steel castings, plastics and even paper.

When it comes to the nuts and bolts of running a business, Suhail Industries is a well-oiled machine, powering up Qatar into the industrial juggernaut it is today.

The company make industrial pipes that are shipped halfway across the globe to the United States. The pipes don’t leave the factory until they’re thoroughly checked and painted with an important label: ‘Made in Qatar’.

“Right now we have 15 factories, all of them in the engineering industries, they are at the foundry, which converts the steel scrap to cast iron and ductile, ductile iron castings,” explains Shadi Afif, the Chief Development Officer at Suhail Industrial Holding Group.

The company recently added a fifteenth high-tech factory to its collection. Suhail Engineering Industries boasts a land area of more than 13,000 square meters, with nearly 60 industrial machines.

And this isn’t your typical factory either. Hi-tech machinery, air conditioning and even a little greenery. Suhail Industries is challenging the idea that an industrial factory can’t also be sustainable and eco-friendly, just like its products.

“Our main target was to have a state-of-the-art factory and to have it friendly to the environment, to have zero impact,” says Omar Ziad Atiyeh, factory manager at Suhail Engineering Industries. “Basically, any wastes that could affect the environment to be handled properly, and to have a good atmosphere for the employees. So, we used Japanese methodologies, having