The Manama-based leading aluminium producer, Gulf Aluminium Rolling Mill B.S.C. (GARMCO), has collaborated with the SMS group GmbH, with a goal to successfully upgrade and deliver motors and drives in the one-stand reversing hot rolling mill. Although initially designed by a third-party supplier,...
Mohamed Rafea, the Chief Executive Officer at GARMCO since April 2020, brings over 27 years of aluminium industry experience, previously leading Riyadh Cables and Midal Cables. He holds an MSc from Coventry University and a BSc in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M. In an exclusive for Al...
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The Bahrain-based international aluminium rolling mill and one of the largest downstream aluminium facilities in the Middle East, announced today the launch of its new group website to better showcase its versatile and high quality aluminium products to its global customer base and the introduction...
Gulf Aluminium Rolling Mill Company (GARMCO), the Bahrain-based international aluminium rolling mill and one of the largest downstream aluminium facilities in the Middle East, today announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for technical and operational co-operation with...
Bahrain-based Gulf Aluminium Rolling Mill Company (GARMCO), one of the largest downstream aluminium facilities in the Middle East, and Mitsui & Co., Ltd. together with Perse Metals Pte Ltd today announced that they have completed a transaction, which results in Mitsui’s purchase of a 25% interest...
The strength of the aluminium downstream sector and 'value-added' products will be showcased at the upcoming Gulf Industry Fair 2015, taking place from Tuesday to Thursday at the Bahrain International Exhibition and Convention Centre. Led by Aluminium Bahrain (Alba), one of the world's leading...
Brady plc (BRY.L), the leading supplier of trading and risk management solutions for metals, recycling, energy and soft commodities, announced today that it will deliver its new Hedge Manager solution to Gulf Aluminium Rolling Mill Co. (GARMCO). The new software has been designed to meet the risk...
As GCC aluminium production is expected to hit the five million tonnes mark by the end of this year, downstream factories in the GCC countries are racing to acquire the state- -of-the-art machines and latest equipment. Since aluminium production started in the region in 1971, there have been...
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba), one of the world’s leading aluminium producers, today, Monday, October 20, 2014 announced Ma’aden - Saudi Arabian Mining Company as the Gold Sponsor for the 18th International Arab Aluminium (Arabal) Conference. The Company also announced Emirates Global Aluminium...
Bahrain-based Gulf Aluminium Rolling Mill Company (Garmco) plans to invest $50 million for capacity expansion, chief executive Graham Bruce told the GDN. The $450m annual turnover company will be boosting its re-melt and casting facilities in parallel with Alba's potline 6 expansion, he said in an...
Bahrain-based Gulf Aluminum Rolling Mill Company (Garmco), a leading downstream aluminium facility in the Middle East, has announced key appointments as part of its restructuring strategy. Hilmar Leimbach is the company's new chief financial officer, Mark Lewis is named senior engineering manager...
Garmco plans to triple output and build region’s largest recycling plant Bahrain-based aluminium producer Gulf Aluminium Rolling Company (Garmco) plans to triple its production capacity over the next 10 years and build the Middle East’s largest aluminium recycling plant. Garmco is targeting a...
WORK at a major factory ground to a halt for several hours after an electrical cable fire early yesterday. Cables of high-voltage switchgears caught fire at Sitra-based Gulf Aluminium Rolling Company (Garmco), sources told the GDN. "The power went off at around midnight and was back only by 6am,"...
A new contract has been signed between Gulf Aluminium Rolling Mill Company (GARMCO) and REDEX in early May 2011 to supply a modern high performance Tension Leveling Line for aluminium strip, including the complete design, manufacture and commissioning at GARMCO´s plant (Manama - Bahrain). As one of...
Engineering tutors and staff from Bahrain Polytechnic recently visited the Gulf Aluminium Rolling Mill Company (Garmco). This was the second time Garmco has hosted the Bahrain Polytechnic staff and afforded them the opportunity of seeing the plant in operation. The visit forms part of the Bahrain...
A Bahrain company has won a $25 million contract to process dross from an aluminium smelter in New Zealand that could transform the way that waste from smelters across the world is recycled. Bahrain-based Taha International Corporation has won the pilot project at the New Zealand International...
...Siemens VAI Metals Technologies has received an order from Gulf Aluminium Rolling Mill Company BSC in Manama of Bahrain to equip its aluminum cold rolling mill no 2 with new automation and drive systems...
...Austria-based plantmaker Siemens VAI Metals Technologies has received an order from Gulf Aluminium Rolling Mill Co. B.S.C. (GARMCO) in Manama, Bahrain, to equip its aluminum cold rolling mill No. 2 with new automation and drive systems. The modernization is intended to improve plant availability...
...The metals park planned around Sohar Aluminium’s smelter in Oman suffered another setback this week as Bahrain’s Gulf Aluminium Rolling Mill Company (Garmco) pulled out of a proposed $350m rolling mill...
...The decision by Bahrain’s Gulf Aluminium Rolling Mill Company (Garmco) to stop using Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) as its sole supplier of aluminium potentially marks the end of an exclusive partnership that lasted for almost 30 years.
