The US Department of Justice has urged a court to dismiss Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond’s lawsuit filed on the proposed USD 4 billion Oklahoma aluminium smelter, arguing that the project would strengthen national and economic security. The move comes as the joint venture of Emirates...
Aluminium prices settled 0.35 per cent higher at INR 345.6 (USD 3.64), backed by declining exchange inventories, expectations of additional fiscal measures in China and concerns over constrained supply from the Middle East. However, improving production prospects in the region limited further...
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Guinea Alumina Corporation (GAC) announced on August 4 that its first ship loaded with metallurgical-grade bauxite sailed from transhipment location near the company’s port in Kamsar to world markets. This marks the first bauxite ore exports from GAC and the beginning of commercial production for...
Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) has won two gold awards at the 2019 Ideas Arabia competition for employees’ suggestions. The Ideas Arabia competition encourages employee engagement in continuous improvement of a company through suggestion schemes, and rewards creative and original ideas. EGA...
Bosnia’s regional energy and mining minister said on July 4 that Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) was reportedly showing interest in Bosnia’s debt-laden aluminium smelter Aluminij Mostar. Aluminij has been in trouble over years now as debt accumulated because of high alumina and electricity prices....
SNC-Lavalin, Canadian engineering, procurement, and construction services provider, has reportedly bagged a three-year Master Services Agreement from Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) to provide engineering and project management services. The Canadian company will complement EGA’s existing resources...
During GIFA, the International Foundry Trade Fair with Technical Forum that took place from 25th to 29th June 2019, in Düsseldorf, Germany, Emirates Global Aluminium highlighted the growing use of UAE-made aluminium in the European automotive industry. EGA supplies its aluminium to two major...
Emirates Global Aluminium, popularly known as EGA, announced today, on June 24, that the first Capesize vessel fully-loaded with bauxite has arrived to call at any GCC port at its quay at Khalifa Port in Abu Dhabi for EGA’s new Al Taweelah alumina refinery. Using Capesize vessels for importing...
Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) reportedly announced yesterday, June 16 that it achieved cost savings of AED20.8 million through suggestion scheme in the first half of 2019. The EGA suggestion scheme first came into effect in May 1981 with the intention of involving the most valuable asset of an...
Emirates Global Aluminium’s (EGA) wholly-owned subsidiary Guinea Alumina Corporation (GAC) has secured Guinea’s largest-ever project financing for its greenfield bauxite mining project in the West African country, which is expected to lift up Guinea’s economy significantly. The total US$750 million...
Abu Dhabi Waste Management Centre Tadweer has reportedly acknowledged four companies that annually generate over 250 tonnes of waste in a bid minimise waste production at source. One of the honorees is Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) that has developed a successful and cost-effective waste...
EGA has started a new AED 15 million spent pot lining pre-treatment and crusher facility in its Al Taweelah site for recycling spent pot lining to be used by UAE cement industry. The largest spent pot lining treatment facility in the Gulf will have a capacity to crush 60,000 tonnes of SPL annually....
Emirates Global Aluminium has become the first company in the Middle East to receive certification under the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI). EGA’s Al Taweelah site has been certified against ASI’s Performance Standard for responsible production, sourcing and stewardship of aluminium. Al...
Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) has announced the production start at Al Taweelah alumina refinery today, April 10. The refinery is expected to expand UAE’s upstream business in the aluminium value chain. Al Taweelah alumina refinery project, located in Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi incurred a...
Emirates Global Aluminium, equally owned by Mubadala Development Company of Abu Dhabi and Investment Corporation of Duabi, is an aluminium conglomerate with interests in bauxite/alumina and primary aluminium smelting. With an annual average production of 2.34 million tonnes, EGA ranks among the...
Emirates Global Aluminium, Mubadala and Dubal officially broke ground on a new AED 1 billion power block at EGA’s Jebel Ali aluminium smelter in Dubai. This state-of-the-art power facility is expected to reduce gas emissions from EGA’s power generation at Jebel Ali by some 10%. Emissions reductions...
Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) reportedly announced in a press release that it entered into a volume commitment extension contract with the global shipping company A.P. Moller – Maersk, in a bid to transport aluminium to all around the world. Maersk is one of EGA’s most significant shipping...
A subsidiary of Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), Guinea Alumina Corporation is about to secure financing of US$700 to US$750 million for a new bauxite project in the Republic of Guinea, EGA’s chief financial officer Danny Dweik told Reuters on Monday, March 11. He confirmed that the financing is...
Emirates Global Aluminium has announced its annual financial report of 2018, where it is found that the UAE’s biggest industrial company outside the oil and gas sector has earned a net income of AED 1.2 billion ($325 million), 64 per cent down from AED 3.3 billion ($900 million) in 2017. This havoc...
Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) announced that it will intensify research partnership with VITO NV, the European research and technology organisation, to find uses of bauxite residue for the UAE construction industry by further developing two of the potential applications identified in the first...
