"That I may go beyond"Sappho | Fragment 182
Beyond what we know. | Beyond what we are.
ἰοίην (ioien) is the only surviving fragment of a poem by Sappho, the Greek poet of the 7th century BC. It is an optative, a mood modern languages have almost lost: it neither states nor commands — it wishes. It is the purely human desire to go beyond one’s own limit, caught at the instant it stops being a wish and becomes will, and then force.IOIEN was born from this idea, and does exactly this: it takes companies where they did not know they could go.
From beginning to end.
What we do
Three things, and we do all three.
Most people who open a market for you stop at the introduction. The hard part starts after.
Find who actually buys
Not the company — the person inside it who signs. We map procurement structures market by market, verify who decides on what, and keep the list current. A name that was right two years ago is worth nothing today.
Open the conversation
Vendor registration, prequalification, the first meeting. In the Gulf and North Africa this rarely happens by email: it happens in a room, and it happens because someone shows up.
Carry the project to the end
Logistics, documents, delivery terms, invoicing, collection. We stay inside the process until the money arrives — which is the part that decides whether a market was worth entering.
Scope
Two sectors. | Large projects only.
We do not do business development across the board. We work with companies that supply products and services into large infrastructure projects, in two sectors — because that is where the buyers, the qualification rules and the timelines are the ones we know.
Water infrastructure
Desalination, treatment and reuse, networks and large transfers. Projects come from public tenders and IWP schemes, and pass through a small number of EPC contractors and developers — the same names, project after project.
Oil & gas infrastructure
Gas plants, refineries, LNG terminals, pipelines, petrochemicals. Long supply chains, mandatory vendor qualification, and schedules dictated by the EPC contractor rather than by the supplier.
- Valves and actuators
- Pumps and pumping packages
- Piping, pipelines and spools
- Fittings and flanges
- Tanks and pressure equipment
- Instrumentation and control
- Electromechanical skids
- Vendor inspection and quality control
- Expediting and progress monitoring
- Testing and witnessing
- Technical and vendor documentation
- Logistics, packing and shipping
- Site services
Everything that goes into a plant and carries a purchase order number. If what you make is on this list — or close to it — you are in the right place.
Markets
Where we are already in the room.
Gulf & North Africa
Where most of the industrial spending is, and where a relationship is worth more than a proposal.
Southern & Western Europe
Where the contractors are. Spain and Portugal in particular, where we know the procurement people directly.
Sub-Saharan Africa
The market that is opening now, where being early is the whole advantage.
Track record
The companies we represent, in numbers.
Figures declared by the companies IOIEN represents, not by IOIEN.
Partners
Who we represent today.
Custom valves for desalination, water treatment and infrastructure. Prequalified with Saudi Water Authority, ACWA Power and WTCO.
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What do you want to sell abroad?
Tell us what you sell and where you want to get to. We will tell you whether we can take you there.
No generic promises. No off-the-shelf strategies. We look at your product, at the market you want to reach and at the real business opportunities. And we tell you plainly whether IOIEN can make a difference.
If we see a concrete opportunity, we start building it: market access, local relationships, business development, negotiation and growth. From the first contact to closing the deal.
Because for us business starts with people. If there is mutual interest in working together, we come to you: in Italy, in Europe or in the Gulf.
Dubai, United Arab Emirates