Emerson Builds SPARK Innovation Hub The Largest Investment

When it opens in December 2024, the facility will help industrial customers in the area with control systems engineering, staging, and testing. It will also make differential pressure (DP) transmitters, control valves, pressure relief valve assemblies, and solenoid valve assemblies.

According to the report, Emerson’s construction of an innovation and manufacturing hub at SPARK aligns with Saudi Arabia’s "Saudi Vision 2030," a strategic framework to promote local content and improve localization.

The Saudi government’s initiatives are designed to reduce the country’s reliance on imports while supporting the development of domestic capabilities in a range of sectors, including manufacturing, technology, and services.

"Our state-of-the-art innovation and manufacturing facility at King Salman Energy Park propels our expansion strategies in the Middle East and Africa region," said Lal Karsanbhai, Emerson’s president and CEO. "This investment is a big step toward our goal of giving our customers in Saudi Arabia services that are good and reliable."

Emerson is pursuing value chain localization as part of the "Made in KSA" initiative and has targeted supply chain localization opportunities across its various products, stated the report.

So, the company plans to work with local suppliers through long qualification processes, knowledge transfer, prototyping, and testing to make sure that its facilities in Saudi Arabia are sustainable and can run on their own.