ESTABLISHED in 1977, GBA Products Limited is based out of the UAE and registered in the Isle of Man, UK. The company was founded and headed by its managing director Ram Kini.

The company’s operations initially consisted of providing a reliable supply chain of construction materials in the UAE and its neighbouring states. GBA (Gulf bitumen and asphalt) found early success with supplying bitumen and cement to major civil infrastructure projects, and started marketing bitumen from major refineries into Gulf and African countries.

GBA Products is an accepted vendor for the United Nations Organisation and the African Development Bank. The company has now been providing supplies of cement and bitumen to UN-funded projects in Africa for decades.

Seeking to grow the business organically GBA started trading in commodities and providing technical equipment to related industries, such as oil and gas, pipe coating, marine and chemicals.

As a result, the company’s operations have rapidly diversified to a wide range of industries.
This has lead to association and support from over 50 internationally reputed manufacturers and industrial houses that GBA works both in the Gulf and around the world.

Today the company’s annual turnover is close to $60 million with an average growth rate of 10 per cent year-on-year. This success has been due to a growing base of satisfied customers, and GBA has always maintained that its relationships with its customers and the goodwill built through support provided the best possible competitive advantage.

GBA has always had a working philosophy that puts customer satisfaction at the top of its objectives. This has meant that the company has developed a flexible approach to each of its business partners trying its best to accommodate their own particular style of doing business.

At the same time the company maintains a uniform work ethic and level of commitment to all organisations and individuals it deals with.