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28 March 2024

RAK Ceramics tiles for KSA project

RAK Ceramics is a $1bn global conglomerate that offers a product portfolio comprising 6,000 designs in ceramic tiles. (SUPPLIED)

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RAK Ceramics, the world's largest ceramic tiles and sanitary ware manufacturing company, has supplied 85 per cent of the tile requirements of Saudi Arabia-based Princess Noura bint Abdul Rahman University, the world’s largest women’s university, being built with an estimated value of $11.5 billion (SR 43.127bn).

RAK Ceramics has been contracted to deliver 230,000 square metres of porcelain tiles.
 
Princess Noura bint Abdul Rahman University is poised to be the world's largest centre of higher learning for Arab women as it will accommodate over 26,000 students and will feature 13 colleges, including those for medicine, dentistry, nursing, naturopathy, IT, languages, instant translation and pharmacy.
 
Dr Khater Massaad, CEO, RAK Ceramics, said: "RAK Ceramics shares a common vision with Princess Noura bint Abdul Rahman University in terms of the quality we strive to achieve, and in line with this we will be supplying specially developed porcelain tiles to offer a distinct character that will complement the university's stature as a centre of academic excellence for Arab women.

“This undertaking also manifests the reputation of RAK Ceramics as the premier provider of tile solutions to many of the world's most prestigious development projects."
 
The university project will include an administration building, a central library, conference centres, buildings for 15 academic faculties, several laboratories, a 700-bed hospital equipped with state-of-the-art facilities, housing for university staff, mosques, a kindergarten school, and exclusive amusement centres for families and students.

RAK Ceramics is working with main contractor Saudi bin Laden Group, contractor Arabtec Saudi Arabia and project engineer Dar Al Handasa – Shair and Partners in this project.
 
A spokesperson from Saudi bin Laden Group said: "RAK Ceramics brings a wealth of tiling expertise and experience that will definitely help us realise the level of sophistication and quality required by this unprecedented project."
 
RAK Ceramics is a $1 billion global conglomerate in the ceramic industry, offering a product portfolio comprising over 6,000 designs in ceramic tiles, Gres Porcellanato, and several models in sanitary ware.