Honeywell and Kortech Join Forces to Revolutionise MENA Infrastructure with Automation

Mohammed Fathy

Last updated 1-02-2026

3 min

Honeywell and Kortech have signed a Dubai deal to modernise major regional infrastructure.

The partnership targets data centres, transport and smart buildings across MENA.

Energy efficiency and systems that “talk to each other” are central goals.

Honeywell brings global automation expertise, matched with Kortech’s local delivery strength.

Success will hinge on execution, not just “easy to sign” memoranda.

Honeywell has struck a new collaboration with Kortech, part of Egypt’s Hassan Allam Holding, as the two companies look to push automation and digital systems into some of the region’s biggest infrastructure projects. The agreement, signed in Dubai, brings together Honeywell’s global know-how in building automation and digital technology with Kortech’s on-the-ground engineering and delivery strength across the Middle East and North Africa.

At its core, the partnership is about modernising critical infrastructure. Think data centres, transport networks, large commercial buildings and the kind of smart-city developments that keep popping up from Riyadh to Dubai. Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE are all in focus, with an emphasis on energy efficiency, resilience and systems that actually talk to each other, rather than working in silos. That may sound like jargon, but anyone who’s spent time around a half-finished mega-project knows how messy things can get without proper integration — it’s a bit of a faff, frankly.

The memorandum of understanding was signed in the presence of Hassan Allam Holding’s Group CEO Hassan Allam, alongside Billal Hammoud, President and CEO of Honeywell Building Automation. According to Nabil Cheqroun, who leads Honeywell Building Automation across the Middle East, Turkey and Africa, the idea is to support the region’s development ambitions by deploying connected automation and control technologies that are, as he put it, “future-ready”. Pairing that with Kortech’s local experience, he said, should help unlock real value across the wave of infrastructure spending under way.

From Kortech’s side, Chief Techno-Commercial Officer Zayan Waziry described the tie-up as a way to scale up more advanced, tech-driven infrastructure solutions. By blending Honeywell’s global innovation with local delivery expertise, he argued, the company can broaden what it offers in transport, buildings and data centre projects — a critical area as demand for cloud services and digital capacity explodes across the region.

For readers at Arageek who follow the startup and innovation scene, this sort of deal feels quite spot on. I remember chatting with founders who struggle to plug cutting-edge software into very traditional construction environments; big collaborations like this, while not flashy, often make the biggest difference. That said, I reckon execution will be everything. MoUs are easy to sign, delivering seamless automation at scale is another story altogether… well, we’ll see.

Still, with Kortech’s roots in mechanical, electrical and instrumentation systems and Honeywell’s long track record in automation and analytics, the pairing looks well positioned to tackle the region’s evolving infrastructure needs. If they get it right, many future buildings across MENA may quietly run smarter and more efficiently — and most people using them will never even notice. Which, in this line of work, is probably a good sign definately.

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