EGA leaders applaud the team that delivered historic first UAE industrial technology project

On 2^nd February’20 the largest industrial company in the United Arab Emirates outside oil and gas, Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), apprehended more than 100 staffs who contributed to the success of the company’s historical export of UAE-developed industrial technology to Aluminium Bahrain (ALBA)

The congratulations ceremony in Dubai was led by EGA’s Managing Director Abdulla Kalban and Chief Executive Officer Abdul Nasser Bin Kalban.

In 2016, EGA secured the competitive international tender to deliver smelting technology to ALBA regarding its Line 6 expansion project.

The win positioned EGA to rank as the first UAE industrial company to license its core process technology internationally and was a historic event in the development of a knowledge-based economy in the UAE.

EGA supplied experts from its Technology Development and Transfer team, as part of the technology transfer agreement and also from operations, to support the construction and commissioning of Line 6 in Bahrain.

The construction and commissioning of the project in Bahrain took around 3 years and some 40 EGA employees worked on the project. Additional dozens more were supporting the effort from EGA’s sites in the UAE.

EGA’s technology at Line 6 passed a final performance guarantee test in December’19. The results were amazing, as it exceeded EGA’s commitments under the technology transfer agreement.

EGA’s Managing Director, Abdulla Kalban, said: “The transfer of EGA’s UAE-developed industrial technology to Bahrain was a major undertaking, requiring many of our staff to spend long periods abroad working hard to meet challenging deadlines, without ever compromising on safety or quality. We are proud of our team’s fantastic work, which catapulted EGA into an elite global league of aluminium companies that earn revenue from their technology innovation as well as their metal. This project was significant not just for EGA, but for the UAE.”

EGA also invited 21 staff from ALBA’s Production and Maintenance departments to the UAE for hands-on-training using EGA technologies.

ALBA selected EGA’s 10th generation technology, DX+ Ultra, which is amongst the most efficient in the global aluminium industry. In the final performance test at ALBA, EGA’s technology operated at 465kA. Specific energy consumption was 12.87-kilowatt-hours per kilogramme of aluminium produced.