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Hassan Allam Holding has agreed to acquire MetiPro, the engineering, procurement and construction arm of water management group Metito, in a deal that gives the Egyptian infrastructure giant deeper reach into desalination, wastewater treatment and water reuse projects across more than 50 countries. Financial terms were not disclosed.
The acquisition brings together two long-established names in regional infrastructure at a moment when water security has moved from background priority to front-of-budget urgency across governments in North Africa, the Gulf and beyond. Hassan Allam said the combined platform links its roughly 90 years of infrastructure experience with more than 65 years of water sector expertise that MetiPro carries from its time inside the wider Metito group.
MetiPro is not all of Metito. It is the project delivery and engineering side of the business, carved out through a restructuring in late 2024 when Metito separated its operations into three distinct units: MetiPro, Metito Utilities and Metichem. Hassan Allam is buying the part that designs and builds, not the utilities platform that runs assets post-construction. That distinction shapes what the deal actually delivers.
Hassan Allam already has a water platform of its own. It operates through businesses including Hassan Allam Construction, Intech, Bioworks and Ridgewood, covering engineering, construction, operations and maintenance across desalination and wastewater treatment in Egypt and neighbouring markets. What it did not have was MetiPro's international project history and design depth. That is what this acquisition provides.
MetiPro's geographic reach spans more than 50 countries, with documented work across desalination, wastewater treatment, water reuse, surface water treatment and industrial water solutions. In a region where population growth, climate pressure and structural water scarcity have combined to push governments toward large capital programs, those capabilities carry real commercial value.
The deal also extends an existing working relationship rather than starting one cold. Hassan Allam and Metito have already collaborated on major Egyptian projects including Al Mahsamma, New Delta, West Alexandria and Abu Oweikal. Those are among the more significant water treatment and reuse schemes Egypt has commissioned in recent years, part of a national effort to stretch the country's water resources further as it absorbs a growing population and agricultural demand. The two companies already knew how the other worked before signing.
Hassan Allam Chief Executive Hassan Allam said the transaction marks a defining moment for the company and positions it to lead the next generation of sustainable water and wastewater projects across the Middle East and Africa. MetiPro Chief Executive Karim Madwar said the backing of Hassan Allam would allow the business to scale its impact and accelerate delivery of complex water projects across the region.
The deal also lands against a shifting ownership backdrop inside the wider Metito orbit. In January 2025, a consortium led by The Arab Energy Fund, alongside Zamil Group Investment Company and the founding Ghandour family, acquired 100% of Metito Utilities. That followed an earlier abandoned attempt by Alpha Dhabi Holdings to buy a majority stake in Metito Holdings. The restructuring and sequential asset movements suggest the Metito group has been actively repositioning its components across different ownership structures, and the MetiPro sale to Hassan Allam is the latest piece of that process to close.
Water has become one of the few infrastructure categories where long-term demand is structurally secure. Governments can delay office towers or defer transport projects when budgets tighten. Treatment plants, desalination capacity and wastewater reuse systems are harder to postpone, particularly in arid markets where the gap between supply and demand is already visible. That makes the sector attractive to contractors looking for durable project pipelines in an otherwise lumpy infrastructure spending cycle.
Neither company disclosed a completion timeline or regulatory conditions, leaving the integration picture still open. Clients and investors will want clarity on how quickly MetiPro moves under Hassan Allam's operating structure, whether the combined platform concentrates its initial push on Egypt and the Gulf or moves more assertively into Africa and Eastern Europe, and how the two teams are consolidated.
Hassan Allam has spent years building from its Egyptian construction roots into a broader regional player with positions in transport, energy and utilities. The MetiPro acquisition signals that water is no longer a supporting segment in that portfolio. It is becoming a primary one.
