Steel
Chairman of Libya United Steel Company and of the Tosyali-SULB partnership, a direct reduced iron complex in Benghazi.
Official website
Industrialist connecting the Gulf and Libya since 2008
Trained as an industrial engineer in Benghazi, Ahmed Gadalla built his business on trade between North Africa and the Gulf, then kept building through difficult years, in steel, cement and food production.
Who he is
An engineer who built through trade
He lives in Toronto, Canada, while the UAE remains his business base in the Gulf.
This is the official website of Ahmed Gadalla, also known as Ahmed Alushibe, a Libyan industrial engineer whose career grew out of trade between North Africa and the Gulf. He began with a small automotive-parts shop in Benghazi, moved into distribution and logistics, and on 21 December 2008 founded Al Mored Oasis General Trading LLC in the UAE. That same year also saw the start of Alushibe Holding Group.
- Chairman of Libya United Steel Company (SULB) and of the Tosyali-SULB partnership
- Chairman of Libyan Cement Company (LCC) since acquiring shares in 2023
- Interests in steel, cement, food production, trading and logistics
Areas of work
Where his work is focused
The companies he founded, chairs or holds shares in cover a small number of sectors, each tied to basic needs in Libya.
Cement
Chairman of Libyan Cement Company, where the second production line at Hawari is being restored after 13 years out of service.
Food production
Zulfa Food Industries, a new factory moving from construction to systems and production readiness in 2026.
Trading and distribution
From a single automotive-parts shop in Benghazi to Al Mored Oasis General Trading LLC, founded in the UAE in December 2008.
Logistics and supply
Procurement and supply-chain work linking suppliers in the Gulf with buyers in North Africa.
Shareholdings
Shares in Commercial and Development Bank from 2005 and in Berniq Airways from 2010.
Local industry creates work close to home. That conviction runs through the steel, cement and food projects he leads in Libya.
- 2008Alushibe Holding Group established
- 21.12.2008Al Mored Oasis General Trading LLC founded in the UAE
- ~80Homes for workers built in 2024, linked to LCC operations
The motto he works by
“Stay, adapt and keep building.”
The words describe a choice rather than a slogan.
- Stay. Through the conflict years of the 2010s he kept his businesses in Benghazi running instead of walking away.
- Adapt. Plans changed as conditions changed, and in his forties he went back to formal study, completing an MBA in 2025.
- Keep building. Today that means the Tosyali-SULB steel complex, the Hawari cement line and the Zulfa food factory.
Perspectives
Latest perspectives
Essays in his own voice on trade, industry and learning. All three are drafts awaiting his approval.
What two decades of Gulf–Libya trade taught me
From a small auto-parts shop in Benghazi to founding a trading company in the UAE in 2008: what years of moving goods between the Gulf and Libya teach about trust, logistics and staying the course.
Local industry is national security: steel, cement and food
Why a country that makes its own steel, cement and food is harder to shake, and why building factories in Libya is about jobs, skills and resilience as much as output.
Why I went back to school at 40+
A strategy diploma in 2021–22, Chartered Management Institute membership, an MBA in 2025 and now doctoral-level study: why formal learning still matters after years in business.
Elsewhere
Project news and group announcements
This site carries his perspectives, his Gulf story and material for the media. Progress on the projects in Libya and news from the group are published on the sister sites.
Libya project updates
Steel, cement and food projects, on ahmedgadalla.com
Group news
Announcements from Alushibe Holding Group, on alushibenews.com
Contact the office
Media, speaking and partnership enquiries
Journalists, event organisers and prospective partners can reach the office of Ahmed Gadalla through the contact page or by writing to media@ahmedgadalla.ae.