Aluminium extrusion 2035 demand nears 44.22Mt: Industry experts decode next decade drivers
Global aluminium extrusion demand is entering a phase with consumption projected to rise from 35.25 million tonnes in 2025 to 35.93 million tonnes in 2026 and 44.22 million tonnes by 2035, representing a 2.29 per cent CAGR. While building and construction will remain the largest end-use sector and...
Alba reaches 50m hours without LTI, strengthening aluminium safety record
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) has reached 50 million safe working hours without a Lost Time Injury (LTI) . The milestone was achieved on September 7, 2026, marking a record in the company’s history. The achievement reflects Alba’s continued focus on workplace safety across its aluminium...
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Emirates Global Aluminium extends support for innovation and continuous improvement in business
New aluminium conglomerate sponsors 2014 Ideas. Arabia International Conference Emirates Global Aluminium ("EGA") - the jointly-owned, UAE-based aluminium conglomerate formed by Mubadala Development Corporation and Investment Corporation of Dubai - has continued its support for innovation and...
Alba welcomes high level Parliamentary delegation from UK
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C (Alba) welcomed a high level delegation of Labour party members from the House of Lords and House of Commons of the UK Parliament. The delegation -- comprising Lord Noon of St. John’s Wood KT MBE, Lord Clive Soley, Rt. Hon Hazel Blears, MP, Patricia Janet, Baroness Scotland...
Alba supports BTI’s Career Week 2014
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) demonstrated its support towards initiatives that develop the careers of young Bahrainis through its sponsorship of the Bahrain Training Institute (BTI)’s Career Week 2014, taking place from April 15 to 17, 2014 at the institute’s premises. Held under the patronage...
Qatalum surpasses key QIP and HSE targets over 2013
Qatalum stepped into 2013 with the goal of becoming one of the world’s top ten smelters, by surpassing a number of targets set out in the Qatalum Improvement Programme (QIP). The Programme aims to improve the cash cost of aluminium production over the next five years. Overall by the end of 2013 the...
EMAL 'strikes gold again' with the 2nd consecutive global Occupational Health and Safety Award
Emirates Aluminium ("EMAL") has continued its impressive Health and Safety record sustained throughout the operation of Phase I and has been recognised by receiving the prestigious 2014 Gold Award for Occupational Health and Safety from the Royal Society for Prevention of Accidents ("RoSPA"). This...
Kazakhstan, Bahrain sign memorandum of cooperation in aluminum production
Top-aluminium Memorandum of cooperation in production of aluminum was signed between Kazakhstan and Bahrain on Monday, Kazakh media said. Vice Prime Minister – Minister of Industry and New Technologies of Kazakhstan Asset Issekeshev and Bahrain's Minister of Industry and Commerce Hassan Abdulla...
Alba achieves 2 million work hours without LTI
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) is pleased to announce that it has achieved 2,000,000 work hours without Loss Time Injury (LTI), thus demonstrating the company’s progress in achieving a zero accident work environment for employees across the plant. Alba’s Executive Management team and other...
Project to boost Sohar Aluminium output
Sohar Aluminium, Oman's biggest non-hydrocarbon industrial venture, has approved plans for the implementation of a productivity optimisation project that will boost output by a significant 28,000 tonnes of primary aluminium annually. The so-called 'Amperage Creep' project is one of two important...
Aluworks to increase capacity
Aluworks Limited, an aluminium products manufacturing company, is to raise its annual production capacity from the existing 30,000 tonnes to 50,000 by the middle of the year. This follows the installation of a new cold-rolling mill to replace the existing one. The current mill has been in operation...
ALBA sales figures rise 3.1% in Q1 2014
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C (Alba) kick starts 2014 on a solid note - sales figures for the first quarter rose by 3.1% year- on-year (YoY) to 226,472 metric tonnes (mt) while production figures were up by 2.1% YoY to reach 232,298 mt ahead of the company’s own forecast for the period (versus 227,414 mt...
Emirates Global Aluminium to account for half of GCC output
Emirates Global Aluminium has been officially incorporated, creating an entity accounting for 50 per cent of total GCC aluminium output. Mubadala Development and the Investment Corporation of Dubai announced yesterday the completion of the deal to merge their two aluminium assets into one...
Stroytransgaz signs contract with Iranian Industries Development and Renovation Organisation for alumina project
Economic ties between Iran and Russia are developing successfully, Iranian Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Mehdi Karbasian said. "There are good potentials for boosting cooperation between Tehran and Moscow," he said. As an example of growing bilateral ties, Mehdi mentioned the signing of a...
UC RUSAL denies cannibalising ALSCON
UC RUSAL, operators of the ALSCON smelter plant at Ikot Abasi, Akwa Ibom State, weekend, denied accusations that it had cannibalised the aluminium smelter plant. The company said in a statement by Morenko Elena, of the International Media Relations office in Moscow, that it had in fact taken...
Emirates Global Aluminium to promote UAE interests at leading global industrial event
The UAE's industrial flagship- Emirates Global Aluminium ("EGA") - will participate at this year's Hannover Messe, which takes place in Germany from 7 to 11 April. The annual event is the world's leading industrial and technological trade fair, attracting over 200,000 visitors from 71 countries....
Ducab concludes 2013 with 22% growth in sales
Ducab, the Middle East's leading manufacturer of high quality cables and cabling products, has announced its annual results for 2013. Building on strong demand locally and abroad, Ducab sales revenues have grown to AED 5 billion, marking an increase of 22% per cent over 2012 sales. Growth was...
Alba welcomes French delegation
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C (Alba) welcomed a French delegation comprising around 30 industrial and business entrepreneurs from France and the Middle East on Tuesday, April 1, 2014, who visited Alba to further strengthen bilateral trade relations as well as familiarise themselves with the company’s...
Alba accelerates Executive Education
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) on March 31, 2014, launched a three-day programme on “Leadership Practices 360 Feedback Process” for all its Executives and Managers as part of the Executive Education series for 2014. Delivered by Prof. Richard Daft from Vanderbilt University, USA the “Leadership...
Labour union protests ALSCON’s shutdown
Thousands of protesters, who are members of the Nigeria Labour Congress, on Monday protested the shutdown of Aluminium Smelter Company of Nigeria plant in the Ikot Abasi, Ikot Abasi Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State. The protesters, who blamed the organisation’s Russian management for the...
