Oman Business: Madayn signs cooperation programme with Sohar University – Gulf Digital News

Oman Business: Madayn signs cooperation programme with Sohar University – Gulf Digital News

Oman’s Public Establishment for Industrial Estates, Madayn, has signed a cooperation programme with Sohar University to enhance the partnership between public and private sectors and entrepreneurship in the sultanate. 

The agreement was signed by Hilal bin Hamad Al Hasani, CEO of Madayn, and Dr Hamdan bin Sulaiman Al Fazari, Acting Vice Chancellor of Sohar University.

The cooperation programme aims at exploring the developments in plastic technologies in line with the objectives of both sides by providing an industrial base for plastic industries in Sohar with the aim of achieving the added value of high-volume production of plastic raw materials in Oman, and thus contribute to providing tech support and industrial solutions to the existing companies, encouraging investments in plastic manufacturing, and providing more job opportunities. 

The cooperation programme also aims at planning and developing a technical training programme for the workforce of factories and companies based in the industrial cities of Madayn within the specialisations and technical capabilities available in Sohar University and Industrial Innovation Academy. 

As per the agreement, Madayn will promote Intaj Suhar – the industrial innovation hub based at Sohar University – through encouraging the companies in the industrial cities to benefit from the available