Ajman Free Zone activity register
Industrial licence activities in Ajman Free Zone
The short answer
Ajman Free Zone issues the Industrial licence to businesses that manufacture, process, assemble, or package goods inside the zone, drawn from a register of 407 named production activities. It covers making or transforming a product, not trading goods someone else made, which sits under the zone's separate Commercial family. The fact that decides whether it fits is premises: the authority matches each named activity to a production facility, and a licence without a matching facility plan cannot operate.
Ajman Free Zone groups its register into four licence families: Commercial, Industrial, Services, and Freelancer. Industrial is the production licence — manufacturing, processing, assembling, and packaging goods inside the zone, rather than buying and reselling them, which is what the [Commercial licence](/zones/ajman-free-zone/commercial-licence) covers instead. Within this family sit 407 separate activities, spanning heavy processing through to light assembly and packaging work.
The spread is wide enough that two Industrial licences can look nothing alike. Aluminum Smelter and Extraction, a named entry on Ajman Free Zone's own Industrial list, implies a dedicated production unit and, most likely, an environmental or civil-defence sign-off. Baby Food Manufacturing, also on the list, instead brings a municipal food-safety approval. Both sit under the same family; neither sits on the same facility plan, and Ajman Free Zone decides what each needs before a licence is issued. A business that only assembles or packs — Air Conditioner Units Assembling, say — can still belong here without transforming raw material at all.
Velarozone checks an intended production activity against Ajman Free Zone's own Industrial list and the facility it implies before an application goes in; the authority itself decides which activities qualify, what premises they require, and what the licence costs. [Why work with Velarozone](/why-velarozone) sets out how that advisory role works in practice.
What the Industrial classification covers
Activities in this family describe making things: manufacturing, processing, assembly, and packaging. Each register entry names what is produced — foodstuffs, metals, building products, equipment — and the licence attaches to that production activity.
Industrial activities are the most premises-dependent category on any register. What the authority requires by way of facilities, and which environmental or safety approvals apply, is decided by the authority against the specific activity, and it shapes the whole engagement.
What a industrial licence here is structured for
A licence built from this family suits an operation that will physically produce, process, or assemble in the zone, with the workspace to match.
The premises conversation comes before the licence conversation. An industrial activity chosen without a facilities plan is a licence that cannot be operated, so the two are assessed together from the start.
From the register
Activities in this family, by name
A sample of the 407 activities Ajman Free Zone files under Industrial, exactly as the register names them. Activity names are the authority's own wording and are shown in English in every language; register codes are not published.
- Adhesive Cards Manufacturing
- Adhesive Materials Manufacturing
- Agarwood and Incense Manufacturing
- Agricultural Pests Pesticides Manufacturing
- Agricultural Tractors Manufacturing
- Air Conditioner Units Assembling
- Air Conditioner Units Manufacturing
- Air Filters Manufacturing
- Albums Manufacturing
- Aluminum Foils Manufacturing
- Aluminum Plates and Containers Manufacturing
- Aluminum Rolling
- Aluminum Smelter and Extraction
- Ambulant Manufacturing
- Animal Feed Manufacturing
- Animal Oil and Fat Manufacturing
- Anti Corrosion Materials Manufacturing
- Artificial Marble Manufacturing
- Artificial Plants & Flowers Making
- Asphalt and Paving Materials
- Assembling computers - Import & Export
- Assembling of water treatment systems and blending of related chemicals
- Auto Electrical Wires Manufacturing
- Auto Irrigation Devices Manufacturing
- Auto Upholstery manufacturing
- Automatic Gates & Barriers Manufacturing
- Automobile Assembling
- Baby Food Manufacturing
- Barbed Wires Manufacturing
- Basic Organic Chemical Acids Manufacturing
What this page does not decide
Decision factors
What changes the answer
Velarozone's most recent read of Ajman Free Zone's own Industrial activity list, captured on 25 August 2026, shows the following.
- 407 activities sit under the Industrial family, separate from Ajman Free Zone's Commercial, Services, and Freelancer families.
- Named entries span heavy processing — Aluminum Smelter and Extraction, Basic Organic Chemical Acids Manufacturing — through to light assembly, such as Air Conditioner Units Assembling and Assembling computers - Import & Export.
- Food, chemical, and metal-processing activities on the list typically bring a municipal, civil-defence, or environmental approval into the application; which one applies is decided against the specific activity, not the family as a whole.
- The family is defined around physical production; a business that only buys and resells goods someone else made falls under Ajman Free Zone's separate Commercial family instead.
- Which production facility an activity needs, and whether Ajman Free Zone has that facility available, is confirmed by the authority before a licence is issued, not assumed from the activity name alone.
Where this family is a strong fit
- A business that will physically manufacture, process, assemble, or package goods inside the zone, not just trade the finished product.
- An operation that has already thought about premises — a production unit, workshop, or industrial land — rather than treating the licence as the first step.
- A process whose output matches a named entry on Ajman Free Zone's own Industrial list, such as Animal Feed Manufacturing or Adhesive Materials Manufacturing, checked activity by activity.
- A business prepared for a sector approval — food safety, civil defence, environmental — to sit alongside the licence where the activity calls for one.
Where it is the wrong family
- A trading business that imports finished goods and resells them without changing them — that belongs under Ajman Free Zone's Commercial family, not Industrial.
- A business with no premises plan yet; an Industrial activity without a matching facility is a licence that cannot be operated.
- An operation that treats the licence date as the production start date, with environmental or safety approvals left as an afterthought.
- A process involving controlled chemicals, waste, or heavy emissions where no environmental or safety scoping has been done.
About this listing
Questions
Frequently asked
- What does an Industrial licence from Ajman Free Zone cover?
- Production activities — manufacturing, processing, assembling, and packaging — drawn from a register of 407 named activities that Ajman Free Zone keeps separate from its Commercial, Services, and Freelancer families. The licence attaches to the specific activity named on it, not to manufacturing in general.
- Does an Industrial licence come with a factory or warehouse automatically?
- No. Ajman Free Zone matches each Industrial activity to a production facility it decides is appropriate — a workshop, factory unit, warehouse, or industrial land — and that match is confirmed as part of the application, not assumed from the licence type.
- Do Industrial activities need approval from anyone besides Ajman Free Zone?
- Some do. Processes touching food, chemicals, metals, or waste streams can bring a municipal, civil-defence, or environmental approval into the application. Which one applies, if any, depends on the specific activity, and Ajman Free Zone confirms it rather than this page.
- How does an Industrial licence differ from Ajman Free Zone's Commercial licence?
- Industrial covers making or transforming goods on site — importing inputs, producing the listed output, and exporting or selling the result. Commercial covers trading finished goods someone else made, with nothing transformed along the way. A business doing both checks with Ajman Free Zone whether it needs activities from both families.
- What does an Industrial licence at Ajman Free Zone cost?
- Ajman Free Zone sets and quotes the fees, and they vary by activity, facility, and visa requirement. Velarozone confirms current figures with the authority as part of the application rather than publishing them here.
Check where this activity can be licensed
Velarozone can check your intended production activity against Ajman Free Zone's own Industrial licence list and the facility it implies before you apply.
This page is general information about UAE business setup, not legal, tax, immigration, or banking advice. Rules, fees, permitted activities, and bank policies can change. Final eligibility depends on your facts and the applicable rules at the time of application.