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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DUBAL and EMAL to participate at 27th International Aluminium Conference in Moscow
Dubai Aluminium (DUBAL) and Emirates Aluminium (EMAL) will jointly participate at the 27th International Aluminium Conference in Moscow to promote UAE’s primary aluminium sector role within the global industry. The conference is organised and hosted by Metal Bulletin from 12 to 14 of the current...
Emal facing higher costs for $2.8bn smelter loan
Emirates Aluminium (Emal) will have to pay much higher rates to borrow money from banks to help finance a $4bn smelter expansion due to the impact of the euro zone crisis on infrastructure lending in the Middle East. Emal, a joint venture between Abu Dhabi's Mubadala and Dubai Aluminium, aims to...
Gulf Industry Fair to break new ground in 2013
Gulf Industry Fair (GIF), the premier business-to-business industrial show in the Northern Gulf, will kick off in Bahrain in a big way with a major new initiative being introduced by organisers Hilal Conferences & Exhibitions (HCE). Preparations are already in full swing for the giant industrial...
Alba Shares its Expertise with Bahrain University Students
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) underlined the importance of maintaining stringent quality standards in aluminium production process with a group of 14 students from the University of Bahrain (UOB)’s Chemical Engineering Department who visited the company for an educational tour. The visit was...
Aluminium industry requires intensive investment and high technology for growth: Qatalum
Qatalum, the organizer of the Arab International Aluminium Conference (Arabal 2012), which will be held in Doha from 20th to 22nd of November 2012, has remarked that the aluminium industry within the GCC region is increasingly attracting high levels of official interest, as well as acquiring a...
EMAL celebrates two safe years free of Lost Time Incidents
Emirates Aluminium has completed two full years representing over 10 million work-hours, with zero Lost Time Incidents (LTI). The outstanding workplace achievement at the Al Taweelah aluminium smelter highlights the success of EMAL’s culture of ‘Safety First, Last, and Always’, which has been a...
RUSAL Donates Medical Equipment to Combat Cholera Outbreak in Sierra Leone
Ten tons of medical equipment valued at more than fifty thousand dollars have been dispatched by the International Bauxite and Aluminum Company in Russia (Rusal), following the recent Outbreak of cholera in Sierra Leone. Speaking on the arrangement for the dispatch of the consignment, Sierra...
ADEWEA to supply power to Emal's second phase
Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority (ADWEA) and Emirates Aluminium (Emal) has signed a memorandum of cooperation under which Abu Dhabi Transmission '&' Despatch Company (TRANSCO), an affiliate of ADWEA, will supply electrical loads to feed Phase II of Emal's smelter development. The agreement...
The profile of UAE aluminium sector will be presented by Dubal and Emal at Aluminium 2012
In support of the region's strategic ambitions to grow product sales in Europe, the UAE's primary aluminium industry will be well represented at the 9th World Trade Fair and Conference (Aluminium 2012), which takes place at Messe Düsseldorf, Germany, from 9 to 11 October this year. This will be...
ISO certification boost for Taha
Bahrain-based Taha International Corporation has been awarded a health and safety certification from TUV Nord Middle East. "This important industry certification recognises Taha's commitment to excellence in the GCC region as the new benchmark in aluminium dross management," said managing director...
Ratan Tata hints at Jaguar Land Rover plant in Saudi Arabia
Tata group Chairman Ratan Tata has said JLR is examining the possibility of setting up an assembly plant in Saudi Arabia to benefit from the upcoming multi-billion integrated aluminium complex in the country, according to a media report. With JLR going for more aluminium content in its products,...
Alba offers support to special needs centre
Aluminium Bahrain (Alba)'s position as a strong corporate citizen that supports the well-being of young people with special needs was given a boost with the donation of BD10,000 towards Al Rahma Centre, an organisation that provides health, social, psychological, vocational and rehabilitative care...
Energy cost reduction can boost aluminium sector: Qatalum
The GCC region’s aluminium industry can make significant gains if production costs can be reduced by containing energy expense, Qatalum says. This will help the industry maintain the highest quality standards in production, meet the requirements of improved competitiveness and enter new markets, it...
Dubai Aluminium supports Gulf Aluminium Council at regional carbon forum
In the primary aluminium industry, carbon ranks as a major raw material. Not only is carbon used as the cathode-lining of the electrolytic reduction cells in which aluminium is extracted from alumina, but it's also the basis for the anodes suspended in the electrolytic solution. These factors...
Alba sponsors book on Bahrain-Japan ties
Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) is sponsoring a commemorative book being released by the Bahrain Japan Business & Friendship Society (BJBFS). The book will highlight the historic visit by His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa to Japan in April. It will also focus on the fortieth anniversary of the...
UAE's Dodsal wins Abu Dhabi gas pipeline contract
The United Arab Emirates' Dodsal Group has won an estimated $450 million contract to build two pipelines from a gas processing plant south west of Abu Dhabi to industrial users to the north east of the capital, two sources said on Sunday. The 297 km pipeline will supply gas to Emirates Aluminium...
Alba demonstrates its safety standards to EWA delegates
Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) recently demonstrated its safety standards to a delegation from the Electricity & Water Authority (EWA)’s Water Transmission Directorate Safety Committee. Alba’s environment & safety engineer Hubert Satheesh met the 14-member delegation headed by EWA’s chief of Safety &...
BHP shuts silicomanganese plant, puts aluminium assets for impairment tests
Diversified miner BHP Billiton has shut its South African Metalloys silicomanganese plant “permanently” and confirmed that its South African aluminium assets have been subjected to impairment testing. With energy coal prices also lower, the latest results presentation of BHP Billiton for the...
