Saturday, Nov 15, 2008

BEIRUT (Zawya Dow Jones)--Saudi Arabia's Organization for Industrial Estates and Technology Zones, or Soietz, has signed three contracts worth 220 million Saudi riyals ($58.8 million) for expansion projects in the second industrial city of Dammam in the eastern part of the country, Abha-based Al Watan daily reports Saturday.

The projects include the expansion of a building materials plant and a meat factory in addition to allocation of land to a pipes plant, the paper reports.

Newspaper Web site: www.alwatan.com.sa

-By Beirut Bureau, Zawya Dow Jones; +961-1-985 757; BeirutZDJ@zawya.com

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