RHL/UAE/ESMH/2026 · Ras Al Khaimah
Erisha Smart Manufacturing Hub
A 25 million sq ft integrated industrial and mixed-use ecosystem across 335 acres in RAKEZ Al Ghail. Rana Exim FZ-LLC holds master-developer rights. It is the nerve centre of everything else on the map.
A manufacturing city, not an estate
Erisha is designed so that production, logistics, innovation and daily life operate together — reducing friction, compressing timelines, and improving long-term operational stability. Rana Holdings operates the hub outright and takes a 40% equity position in resident industries, which means the group's return is tied to whether tenants actually succeed.
Fully aligned with the UAE's Net Zero 2050 vision and Operation 300bn, and recognised in the UNCTAD World Investment Report 2026 as one of the largest announced greenfield projects in Developing Asia by value.
The programme is vertically integrated at the materials layer: an in-house UHPC, GRC and GRP manufacturing facility supplies the hub's own construction programme first and the wider GCC market second, taking cost and schedule risk out of the master build.
Why Al Ghail
- 15 minutes to Saqr Port — the Middle East's largest bulk handling port
- 5 minutes to the E18; 60 minutes to Dubai via the E611
- 20 minutes to RAK International Airport; Etihad Rail freight connection
- 33% of world population within a four-hour flight; 76% within eight
- Operating costs 35–50% below comparable Dubai zones
- 100% foreign ownership, zero corporate tax in-zone, 48-hour licensing
The integrated ecosystem
Phase I opens with twenty turnkey factories built to tenant specification rather than to a speculative template. Across the full build-out the hub is planned to host more than 150 resident industries across six sectors, with Rana Holdings taking a 40% equity position in each — so the master developer earns when the tenant produces, not merely when the tenant signs a lease.
EV & hydrogen mobility
Forty industries covering vehicle assembly, battery packs, fuel-cell integration and charging hardware, anchored by the group’s existing electric-vehicle manufacturing base in India.
Renewable energy manufacturing
Thirty industries producing solar modules and mounting systems, storage assemblies and balance-of-plant fabrication for regional utility-scale projects.
Ancillary & component supply
Thirty industries covering tooling, castings, precision fasteners, wire harness and packaging — sited deliberately within minutes of the primes they feed.
Turnkey factory delivery
Shells from 2,000 to 40,000 sq m handed over fitted, powered and licensed, so a tenant moves from lease signature to first article in months rather than years.
Materials vertical integration
An in-house UHPC, GRC and GRP plant supplies the hub’s own construction programme first and the wider GCC market second, taking cost and schedule risk out of the master build.
Logistics spine
Etihad Rail freight connection, bonded warehousing and a fifteen-minute road link to Saqr Port, the Middle East’s largest bulk-handling port.
The high-technology quarter is where the hub earns its name. Cleanrooms, a battery gigafactory and advanced air-mobility test facilities are programmed for Phase II, supported by shared laboratory, certification and metrology infrastructure that no single tenant could justify building alone.
Semiconductor ATMP
Assembly, test, marking and packaging lines with silicon-carbide and gallium-nitride capability, targeted at power electronics for electric vehicles and grid infrastructure.
Serviced cleanroom estate
ISO-classified cleanroom shells offered as a serviced facility, removing the single largest capital barrier to semiconductor entry in the region.
EV battery gigafactory
Cell-to-pack manufacturing co-located with the mobility cluster, so cells travel metres rather than continents to reach the vehicles they power.
Advanced air mobility
eVTOL, UAV and drone development with flight-test provision, drawing on the group’s aerospace, defence and satellite businesses in India.
Shared R&D and metrology
Central testing, prototyping and certification support available to every resident industry on a serviced basis rather than as a sunk capital cost.
Digital backbone
Campus-wide 5G, IoT instrumentation and a common data layer for predictive maintenance, energy management and quality documentation.
Industrial zones that treat people as a logistics problem lose them. Erisha is planned as a place where the workforce lives rather than merely clocks in — roughly 100,000 sq m of residential development inside the perimeter, mixed by tenure and income band, within a ten-minute journey of the production floor.
Workforce accommodation
Purpose-built housing delivered to RAKEZ labour standards, with recreation, catering and transport designed in from the masterplan rather than retrofitted after occupation.
Staff and management residences
RERA-compliant apartments and townhouses for engineers, supervisors and management families who would otherwise commute daily from Dubai.
Neighbourhood retail
Grocery, pharmacy, banking and everyday services within walking distance of the residential blocks, so daily life does not require leaving the hub.
Parks, sport and public realm
Shaded streets, sports pitches and community space, with campus greywater recycling supporting irrigation across the landscape.
Community facilities
Places of worship, community halls and civic space programmed at masterplan stage rather than added as leftover plots.
Mobility inside the hub
Electric shuttle circuits, cycle routes and covered walkways connecting the residential, industrial and civic quarters.
A 70-bed general hospital, a private school campus and graded hotel stock are part of the programme, not aspirations bolted on later. These assets are what make the hub tenable for families — and tenable for families is what makes an industrial workforce stay past its first contract.
General hospital
Seventy beds with emergency, occupational health and diagnostic capability sized for an industrial population, reducing dependency on Ras Al Khaimah city.
Occupational health and safety
On-site clinics, industrial hygiene monitoring and emergency response integrated directly with the hospital and with tenant HSE regimes.
Education campus
Private school provision from primary through secondary, plus a technical training institute feeding skilled labour directly into resident industries.
Hospitality
Three-star and four-star hotels for visiting buyers, auditors, commissioning engineers and government delegations.
Business and government services
One-stop licensing, immigration and customs desks, with RAKEZ company licensing achievable inside 48 hours.
Retail, dining and conferencing
A civic core with food and beverage, conference space and exhibition facilities for tenant product launches and trade delegations.
Net Zero is the construction standard from day one, not a 2050 pledge. Five distinct carbon revenue streams are modelled inside the hub’s economics, which means decarbonisation appears as a line in the revenue statement rather than only as a line in the cost base.
Net Zero construction
Every building delivered to Net Zero standards at handover, with embodied-carbon accounting carried through the materials supply chain.
On-site generation
Rooftop and ground-mount solar with battery storage, sized on the principle that energy generated within Erisha should power Erisha.
Water and greywater
Campus-wide greywater recycling for irrigation and process use, with potable demand designed down from the masterplan stage.
Circular manufacturing
Waste-to-energy, by-product exchange between resident industries, and circular-economy criteria embedded in tenant selection.
Verified carbon credits
Five monetisable streams under recognised registries, independently verified and reported alongside financial results.
National alignment
UAE Net Zero 2050, Operation 300bn and the UAE–India CEPA framework underwrite the long-run demand case for the hub.
Development roadmap — select a phase