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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World Primary Aluminium Production Increased By 5.6% In Jan-Nov 2011
The World primary Aluminium production increased by 5.6% in Jan-Nov 2011 period. The percentage of increase in the primary Aluminium production is set to decline in coming days considering the falling prices of the Aluminium in futures in international markets that is making the life of producers...
Key study on aluminium sector probed
Executives from the smelters and major downstream aluminium organisations in the Gulf met in Dubai to discuss a study especially produced by the GAC on the aluminium industry. The study investigated the market, short- and long-term prospects, application and influence of the economic situation...
Middle East Will be Strong Competitor to China Aluminum Products
It is reported that China has always been the biggest aluminum products manufacturer for the past few years. While many countries in Middle East were in the process of building aluminum factory projects owing to abundant resources and developed electric power. It it expected that the annual...
BRIEF: Iran aluminum ingot output ups 12.7 percent
Iran produced 22.4 thousand tons of aluminum ingots in the first eight months of the current calendar year (ended on November 21), showing 12.7 percent rise compared with the same period last year. Some 154,000 tons of alumina powder has also been produced in the same period of time, the IRNA news...
Taweelah plans $200m aluminium plant in Abu Dhabi
Taweelah Extrusion Co (Talex) said on Wednesday it was setting up an extrusion products plant at Abu Dhabi's new industrial zone with an investment outlay of AED735m ($200m), as the oil-rich emirate works to diversify its economy. Talex, a joint venture between state-owned Abu Dhabi Basic...
Investment in Abu Dhabi zone expected to hit $5b
Abu Dhabi: Investors who have signed up with Abu Dhabi's Khalifa Industrial Zone (Kizad) are together planning $5 billion in investments by 2015 to establish their industries in the zone, Khalid Salmeen, executive vice-president of Industrial Zones at Abu Dhabi Ports Company (ADPC), told reporters...
Iralco Asks LME to Explain Decision Not to Accept its Aluminum
Iranian Aluminium Co. is trying to establish why the London Metal Exchange said it won’t accept the company’s brand of aluminum for delivery to warehouses approved by the bourse. The company’s product won’t be taken from Jan. 6, the LME said in a notice to members on Dec. 9. If warrants are...
UAE's Emal to invest $3.8 bln in production boost
Emirates Aluminium (Emal), a joint venture between Abu Dhabi's Mubadala and Dubai Aluminium (Dubal), plans to invest $3.8 billion for its phase two development as it ramps up production to become the single largest greenfield smelter in the world, its chief executive said. "Phase two, which we have...
Qatar set to tap gas-to-solids energy source
After emerging as the world's top exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and the world's GTL (gas-to-liquids) capital, Qatar is all set to tap another innovative energy source, gas-to-solids (GTS). As part of the strategy, Qatalum, the state-of-the-art aluminium smelter, is taking the lead in...
Recycling's new page
For the first time, today's print edition of The National comes to you on recycled paper. As the UAE strives to improve its record in recycling, we are proud to make a move in the right direction. But this one step reveals the length of the journey the country is still only starting: the recycled...
Middle East's aluminium to meet demand
Aluminium from the Middle East, where output capacity will double by 2015 powered by cheaper energy, will feed growing long-term demand as smelters elsewhere fall by the wayside, hit by high power costs and a weaker market. Smelter capacity in top user China will continue to rise, but as time wears...
Emal celebrates 1 million tonne landmark
Emirates Aluminium (Emal) has produced its one millionth tonne of hot metal. The Al Taweelah, UAE smelter achieved the landmark figure in November, less than two years after it was commissioned in December 2009. Average daily metal production since 2009 has been 1400t/day. Current production stands...
Ghana to deal with illegal mining, logging
Ghana is making a strategy to deal with illegal mining and logging which poses a grave environmental, health and security risk to the country, Minister of Lands and Natural Resources Mike Allen Hammah said here on Wednesday. Speaking at a workshop to develop a framework for artisanal and...
Gulf set to become aluminum powerhouse
The aluminum industry in the GCC is on the brink of becoming a leading global contributor, according to a new publication issued by Deloitte Middle East. The report titled “GCC: Tomorrow’s Aluminum Powerhouse” pointed out that the UAE, Oman, Bahrain, and Qatar are all home to some of the largest...
Alba Board workforce behind the company’s performance in 2011
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) recognises that it was due to its skilled and remarkable workforce that the company was able to maintain a sound overall performance in 2011, according to a statement issued by the Chairman of Alba’s Board of Directors, Mahmood Hashim Al Kooheji. The statement was...
World Primary Aluminium Production Up 21.29% In Jan-Oct 2011
World primary Aluminium production was at 21.29 million tons in Jan-October 2011, up 21% from 20.11 million tons in Jan-Oct 2010. The report from International Aluminium Institute showed that the production of primary Aluminium in Gulf region was 2.858 million tons in Jan-Oct 2011, up 30% from 2.20...
Norsk Hydro : Highlighting the metal of the future at Qatar Aluminium Symposium
"Producing aluminium is technologically advanced. We therefore need good cooperation from universities like the Qatar University to educate the engineers of tomorrow producing the metal of the future, said Odd Ivar Biller, senior vice president in Hydro and Qatalum board member, at the Qatar...
United Company RUSAL : USAL senior management team officially visits the Republic of Sierra Leone
UC RUSAL,the world's largest aluminium producer, is pleased to report on its senior management teams' recent official visit to the Republic of Sierra Leone, to explore new business development opportunities within the country. During the visit, the delegation discussed the possibility of the...
