EGA expands its U.S. operations to capitalize on rising aluminium demand

<p>Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) announced yesterday that it is expanding its operations in America. The decision comes at a time when the newly elected Trump government in the United States has pledged to revive the domestic core industries such as metal production and product manufacturing on the back of foreign investments. <br /><br />EGA, owned equally by the Abu Dhabi government-owned Mubadala Development and Investment Corporation of Dubai, has doubled its market size in the US over the last few years. With the planned expansion, it now aims to cash in on this opportunity while catering to the rising demand in the US.<br /><br /><img style="vertical-align: middle; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="http://www.alcircle.com/uploads/images/EGA(1).jpg" alt="News" width="517" height="226" /><br />One of the world&rsquo;s biggest aluminium producers, EGA has opened a bigger office at St Louis in Missouri under the Dubal America name. It launched its first office in the country in 2014 and has since then increased its workforce almost five times creating a huge employment base in the US aluminium sector. <br /><br />"St Louis has met our needs and after only a few short years, positioned us for growth," said EGA&rsquo;s chief marketing officer Walid Al Attar. "In order to meet growing US demand we&rsquo;ve increased our workforce and doubled our business volume."<br /><br />The new EGA premises at St. Louis spans a 7,000 square feet area and is double its previous space. It will accommodate a 25-member team "as well as provide space for future growth", the company said. <br /><br />{googleAdsense}<br /><br />EGA added nine positions last year at its US operations, which manage contract negotiations and sales and supply, apart from supervising deliveries of the aluminium manufactured at its Dubai and Abu Dhabi plants. The Gulf aluminium giant sells aluminium products to a host of end user industries in the US such as aerospace, building and construction, and automotive to name a few.<br /><br />EGA has a production capacity of 2.4 million tonnes of aluminium per year, and is also expanding its operations in the UAE and Guinea.</p>