MIDROC-Mohammed International Development Research and Organization Companies is a company owned by Sheik

Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi Mohammed Hussein Ali Al-'Amoudi ( ar, محمد حسين علي العمودي; born 1946) is a Saudi billionaire businessman. He was born Ethiopia in 1946 to a Yemeni father from Hadhramaut and Ethiopian Amhara mother from Wollo. In 201 ...

. It has operations in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Through its

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AB, MIDROC has become a major independent

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Operations

Midroc has operations across three continents, over 50,000 employees and a turnover of $25 billion. The group is active in various sectors, including industry,

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and fuel, production, energy and

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Midroc Europe

Midroc Europe was a privately owned corporate group based in Sweden active in the

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, industry and

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sectors. In January 2022, the Midroc Group, which included Midroc Europe, became Granitor.

MIDROC Ethiopia

MIDROC Ethiopia was established in 1994. In 2011 it made a profit of 1.3bn birr (US$70m). MIDROC has major

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interests in Ethiopia and it is reported that MIDROC Gold Mine (a subsidiary of MIDROC Ethiopia) has paid the Ethiopian Government 100.1 million birr in royalties, the largest contribution of any mining company. Midroc Gold is Ethiopia's sole gold exporter. Its Lega Dembi Mine has a yearly average production of around 4,500 kg of gold and silver. MIDROC owns 70% of National Oil Ethiopia, which competes with YBF, TAF and five other companies in the national petrol market and is establishing a major steel plant (Tossa) in Amhara. This latter is Ethiopia's first industrial steel production plant and is intended to meet a major increase in domestic demand, estimated to rise from 1.2m tonnes to 3.1m tonnes per annum between 2011 and 2014. In August 2008, MIDROC opened a small cement factory on the outskirts of the town, which produces 4,000 quintals of cement per day. Some of the output of this factory was used in the construction of the larger

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Midroc Cement Factory, which is located 70 kilometers north of

Addis Ababa Addis Ababa (; am, አዲስ አበባ, , new flower ; also known as , lit. "natural spring" in Oromo), is the capital and largest city of Ethiopia. It is also served as major administrative center of the Oromia Region. In the 2007 census, t ...

and is the largest cement factory in Ethiopia. North Holdings Investment announced 17 October 2009 that it had completed a feasibility study for its own cement factory at Dejen, which would be built on 450 hectares of land. Construction of the factory will cost around US$1.6 billion, and once completed it would have a production capacity of nine million tons a year. MIDROC also built the Sheraton Addis hotel.

Midroc Middle East

Midroc Middle East is a privately owned corporate group active in the

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and

and the industrial sectors. * ABV Rock Group Ltd * EG&G Middle East * Saudi ABV * Yanbu Steel * Metals Services * Trans Desert Transport * Golden Leaves

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External links

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