• EGA-Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre

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    EGA’s CelestiAL Solar Aluminum to Reach the Stars in New Commercial Satellite

    Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) signed an agreement with Gulf Extrusions and the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) to send CelestiAL aluminum produced from solar power into space. The metal will be used to produce extruded components for MBRSC’s MBZ-SAT, the region’s most advanced commercial satellite in the field of high-resolution satellite imagery. “At EGA, we […]

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    Bechtel to Conduct a Feasibility Study for Alba’s Line 7 Project

    Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) selected International Bechtel Co. Ltd. (Bechtel) to perform a feasibility study for its Line 7 expansion project. This will expand the company’s capacity of high quality, low carbon aluminum. “We are delighted of the partnership we have developed with Bechtel throughout the years, which has translated into awarding them Line 7 […]

  • Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park supplies power to the EGA aluminum smelter for the production of low carbon aluminum

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    EGA to Supply Solar Aluminum to HAI for Use in Automotive

    Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) in the UAE signed an agreement with Hammerer Aluminum Industries (HAI) in Austria for the supply of EGA’s CelestiAL solar aluminum. EGA supplies thousands of tonnes of aluminum to HAI each year — a proportion of which will now switch to CelestiAL. In addition, the agreement will ensure that finished profiles […]

  • EGA aluminum cell technology potline smelter

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    EGA Signs Multiple Smelting Technology Agreements

    Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), based in the UAE, has a long legacy of developing aluminum smelting technology designed to increase production while limiting the amount energy required. Since the 1990s, the company has developed and implemented its own cell technologies throughout its smelters, including both expansions and retrofits of existing lines. EGA became the first […]

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    EGA Plans to Build Its First Aluminum Recycling Facility

    Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) announced that it plans to build a 150,000 tonnes per year aluminum recycling facility, which will be the company’s first and also the largest of its kind in the UAE. EGA intends to market their recycled aluminum under the product name EternAL. The facility will process post-consumer aluminum scrap from the […]

  • EGA potline extension project

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    Increasing Primary Aluminum Production Through Potline Extensions

    By Jean-Denis Carrier, Hatch, and Saif Alhashmi, EGA. Introduction Regardless of the market price, the aluminum industry has continuously been working to improve its cost position by optimizing the utilization of existing assets. This push for optimization has been especially true in the challenging market conditions prevailing since the global financial crisis of 2008. The […]

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    EGA Starts Up 26 New Cells In Its Al Taweelah Expansion

    Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) started up the first section of an expansion project in potline 1 at its Al Taweelah aluminum smelter. “This project to expand our production at Al Taweelah is part of our ongoing debottlenecking of production and investment in high return growth opportunities,” said Abdulnasser Bin Kalban, Chief Executive Officer of EGA. […]

  • Figure 2. Demolition and removal of SPL from an aluminum cell cathode.

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    The SPL Waste Management Challenge in Primary Aluminum

    By Alton Tabereaux, Contributing Editor. Spent potlining (SPL) disposal is one of the largest environmental waste management challenges confronting worldwide primary aluminum smelters due to its toxicity. The International Aluminium Institute (IAI) asserts that 1.6 million tons of SPL were generated from primary aluminum production in 2019,1 making it the second largest waste volume produced […]

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    EGA Harnesses the Power of the Sun to Produce Aluminum

    Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) and the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) have achieved a sustainability milestone in enabling the production of aluminum using solar power — making the United Arab Emirates (UAE) the first country in the world to do so. Harnessing the Sun The availability of solar power on the scale needed for […]