Abdulla Kalban

EGA Finishes US$300 MM Upgrade to Aluminium Smelter

EGA Finishes US$300 MM Upgrade to Aluminium Smelter

UAE’s Emirates Global Aluminium PJSC (EGA) announced yesterday the completion of its three-year, US$300-million project to upgrade production lines at its aluminium smelter at Jebel Ali. According to the firm, the plant’s production lines are now powered by proprietary technology that both...

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UAE Government Affirms Commitment to EGA

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Representatives of Abu Dhabi’s government reaffirmed their commitment to the country’s manufacturing sector generally, and the domestic aluminium industry specifically,...

UAE Government Affirms Commitment to EGA

Events

EGA Challenges UAE’s Students to Develop Robot for Repairing Pot Linings

EGA Challenges UAE’s Students to Develop Robot for Repairing Pot Linings

Emirates Global Aluminium announced a robotics competition on Monday aimed at encouraging UAE’s higher-education students to develop a robot to tackle the difficult and dangerous task of relining its aluminium-smelting pots. The competition, dubbed “Al Robot,” asks students to design, build, and operate an autonomous robot that is capable of laying the brickwork lining within […]

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EGA Opens First Office in China

EGA Opens First Office in China

Emirates Global Aluminium PJSC opened its first office in the People’s Republic of China on Monday. EGA’s office, which is in Shanghai, oversees the firm’s wholly-owned subsidiary in China, which sources raw materials and other supplies in the country. Over the past two years EGA has procured more than US$500 million of supplies from the […]

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EGA to Participate in First-Ever Global Manufacturing & Industrialisation Summit

EGA to Participate in First-Ever Global Manufacturing & Industrialisation Summit

United Arab Emirates’ Emirates Global Aluminium announced earlier this month that it would participate in the first-ever Global Manufacturing & Industrialisation Summit, which is to take place at the end of this week. According to EGA, the summit is the first worldwide meeting of the global manufacturing community. It is intended to be a forum […]

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Guinea Alumina Awards US$700 MM Contract to Fluor

Guinea Alumina Awards US$700 MM Contract to Fluor

Fluor Corporation announced yesterday that it has been awarded a US$700 million consulting contract by Guinea Alumina Corporation S.A. (GAC) to engineer and manage construction for a major bauxite ore mine in Guinea. The contract will have Fluor managing the development of the mine, expected to yield 12 million metric tons of bauxite ore per […]

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EGA Ships First Bauxite from Guinea

EGA Ships First Bauxite from Guinea

UAE’s Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) announced this week that it has shipped the first bauxite bulk sample shipment mined from its operations in the African nation of Guinea. The sample was shipped from Kamsar to customers in the People’s Republic of China. The first shipment consists of 55,000 metric tons of ore, and it represents […]

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