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CTF Consoles Named a 2025 Future 100 Winner

Dubai's CTF Consoles builds control room furniture for mission-critical sites, from the Burj Khalifa to 400 consoles for a G42 project.

Karim El-Sayed·08 Oct 2026·2 min read
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Karim El-Sayed Karim El-Sayed covers company news, policy and regulation across the UAE and wider MENA for Anecdoted, with a focus on how new rules and licences reshape how startups operate. karim@anecdoted.com

CTF Consoles Named a 2025 Future 100 Winner

CTF Consoles has been named a 2025 Future 100 winner. The Dubai company, founded in 2015, works in advanced manufacturing and makes technical furniture for control rooms.

The business began with a scheduling problem rather than a product idea. Looking at the regional market, the founders found a gap. Quality technical furniture came with lead times of 10 to 12 weeks, which suited few of the projects being built across the Middle East, where timelines are short and commissioning dates rarely move. Importing consoles from Europe or further afield meant waiting. CTF Consoles was set up to remove that wait.

The answer was local production. The company built a plant at Dubai Investment Park, and it says no other console maker operates out of the UAE or the broader GCC region. That matters for procurement: a buyer that needs consoles on site in weeks rather than months has few options that keep manufacturing inside the Gulf.

Design centres on three concerns. Cable management, ergonomics, and the wellbeing of operators working in mission-critical environments. Consoles can also be customized so that they reflect a client's branding.

Production runs on software and machinery. CTF Consoles uses artificial intelligence to generate console renders before manufacturing starts, which lets clients see a design early and revise it while changes are still cheap. The build itself relies on Computer Numerical Control equipment, including laser cutters and routers.

Its installed base includes the Burj Khalifa. CTF Consoles also supplied 400 consoles for an Emirates Cool Establishment project delivered by G42.

Alexander Warr is co-founder and CEO of the company. Frederick Fitzgerald Durnford, the other co-founder, serves as managing director.

A control room rarely sits alone on a construction schedule. It sits inside a hospital, an airport, a utility or a data centre that someone else is trying to commission, and a console arriving late can push system testing back with it. Making the furniture in the same city as the site takes shipping and customs off that critical path. It also concentrates risk. One plant serving GCC demand has no second source when several projects land in the same quarter.