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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Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) announced that it is to supply its entire carbon dust production, a by-product of aluminium smelting to the UAE cement industry to be used as alternative fuel. The move strengthens EGA’s cooperation with UAE cement companies and also reiterates its commitment to...
Emirates Global Aluminium announced that the final major piece of equipment for its under-development bauxite mining project has arrived in Guinea. The Barge Loader will now be installed at the end of the mining project’s 1.5 kilometre pier, where it will load bauxite ore into self-propelled barges...
The United Arab of Emirates, world’s fifth largest aluminium producer and one of the top aluminium exporters to the world exported about 2.68 million tonnes of aluminium and aluminium alloys in 2018. The biggest aluminium exporter in the UAE, EGA exports the major portion of its aluminium and ships...
Emirates Global Aluminium announced the successful completion of a $6.5 billion term loan facility with a group of leading global and regional banks. Danny Dweik, EGA’s Chief Financial Officer, said: “This refinancing is another major step in the implementation of our capital structure strategy....
Being one of the world’s top aluminiumproducing countries, the United Arab Emirates’ import of alumina is expected to rise in 2019 after a year-on-year drop till last year. According to our third-party data, the UAE in 2016 had imported 1.67 million tonnes and from then on the volume dropped...
Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) has reportedly entered the final stages of commissioning for its Al Taweelah refinery. The first alumina production at the plant is expected to be in the first half of this year. Abdulla Kalban, managing director and chief executive of EGA said in a statement on...
Emirates Global Aluminium has achieved a milestone at its under-construction Guinea bauxite mining project as the first bauxite train travelled from its subsidiary Guinea Alumina Corporation’s mine to the coast. EGA said the 80-wagon train carried some 6,800 tonnes of bauxite. The bauxite will be...
Emirates Global Aluminium has achieved cost savings of AED 70 million from employee suggestions and continuous improvement projects in 2018. EGA said through its press release that approximately AED 50 million worth of savings were generated through a record 38,037 proposals submitted as a part of...
A Press Release from Gulf Aluminium Council has confirmed that the primary aluminium producers in the GCC region produced a total of 5,408,257 tons of primary Aluminium in 2018. The high quality primary aluminium was shipped to the local as well as the international market. This registers an...
Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) has signed an agreement with the Emirates Scientists Council (ESC) to make nine laboratories for scientific research purposes. The MoU is a part of the ‘Open Labs’ initiative, which was launched by UAE’s Vice President and Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al...
Emirates Global Aluminium has welcomed the start-up of Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) new Potline 6, which has been built utilising EGA’s UAE-developed technology. EGA’s latest technology is amongst the most efficient in the global aluminium industry. Abdulla Kalban, Managing Director & Chief...
Emirates Global Aluminium, the largest industrial company in the UAE outside oil and gas, and the aluminium sector account for 1.4 per cent of the UAE economy, according to an expert study. The sector also supported 60,950 jobs in 2017 with one in every 100 people working in the UAE is employed in...
According to a report, Vedanta Limited is aiming to curb its alumina imports to 500,000 tonnes a year by the financial year 2021. Per the record, the company imports more than two million tonnes of alumina to power its smelters at Jharsuguda and Korba because of having no sufficient captive bauxite...
Mubadala and Dubal Holding have signed an agreement with EGA to develop a state-of-the-art power block and a water desalination plant at EGA’s smelter at Jebel Ali in Dubai. The new facilities will improve power efficiency in aluminium smelting; reduce environmental emissions and natural gas...
Bauxite industry has witnessed a number of developments last week. Here is a round-up of the most important news stories on the bauxite sector from the week gone by: Construction of EGA’s bauxite mining project reaches 75 per cent The construction of Emirates Global Aluminium’s (EGA) bauxite mining...
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) has officially announced the commissioning of its Potline 6 with the First Pot Energisation on Thursday December 13, 2018. This is the smelter’s first step towards becoming the world’s largest aluminium smelter. Alba made a breakthrough by bringing forwards the First...
Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) has announced the completion of commissioning process of the calcination section of its alumina refinery at Al Taweelah in Abu Dhabi. This involved a carefully-planned process of testing equipment and systems in a new plant before start-up. This makes the calcination...
The construction of Emirates Global Aluminium’s (EGA) bauxite mining project in the Republic of Guinea has reached almost 75 per cent, reported the company itself. Developed by EGA’s subsidiary Guinea Alumina Corp (GAC), the total budget of the project is around US$1.4 billion, the largest...
