Aluminium Bahrain Inks Operation And Maintenance Agreement With Bahrain’s Electricity And Water Authority
Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) and Electricity and Water Authority (EWA) have signed an operation and maintenance agreement this week. The new...
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Aluminium Bahrain Becomes First Gulf Region Firm To Earn ISO 18788:2015 Certification
Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) became the first company in the Gulf region to be certified under the ISO 18788:2015 Certification program. The certification was obtained through Bureau Veritas and awarded after an audit of Alba’s Security Operations Management System (SOMS) at Alba’s main...
Alba Smelts 398,252 Metric Tons Of Aluminium In First Quarter
Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) released results for the first quarter of 2023. Results were lower across the board, which the firm...
Electrical Current Increase Brings Aluminium Bahrain’s Reduction Line 6 Production Rate To 560 MTPA
Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) said last week that the nameplate capacity of its Reduction Line 6 recently rose by 20 thousand...
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Alba Commissions New Online Performance System At Its Power Stations
Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) took the next step in its Industry 4.0 Transformational Journey by commissioning the Online Performance System at its power stations. With this in place, operators at Alba’s power stations will be able to quickly and easily view real time and historical data regarding the overall health of the system. In addition, the […]
Progress Continues On Schedule At Aluminium Bahrain’s Power Station 5 (PS5) Block 4 Project
Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) announced this week that the Power Station 5 (PS5) Block 4 Project continues to be progressing according to schedule. The firm said that to date the EPC contractor consortium Mitsubishi Power and SEPCOIII have finished the procurement process for the centerpiece of the project, namely the M701 JAC gas turbine, the steam […]
Alba Inks Financing Deal For 6 MW Solar Farm Project
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) announced this week that it has secured funding totaling BD1.6 million (US$4.2 million) for its Solar Farm Project from Bank of Bahrain & Kuwait (BBK). Alba and BBK held a signing ceremony on Monday that was attended by several officers from both firms. With this new funding in hand, Alba will […]
Alba Retains Spot As Top Ex-China Aluminium Smelter In 2022
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) has retained its spot as the biggest aluminium smelting company outside of the People’s Republic of China. According to a report released by global research, analytics, and consultancy firm Wood Mackenzie, Alba’s production of 1,600,111 metric tons last year cements it in the lead again this year for aluminium smelters based […]
Aluminium Bahrain’s 2022 Bottom Line Hit Hard By Challenges To Global Market
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) reported results for the final quarter and full year of 2022 last week. Although financial metrics were down almost across the board, Alba praised its workforce for strong results despite the multiple challenges faced by the aluminium market in 2022. In the fourth quarter Alba reported a profit of BD39.4 million […]
Biden Infrastructure Bill A Big Boon To Aluminium Industry: Norsk Hydro VP Mike Stier
Earlier this month the United States Congress passed into law President Joe Biden’s US$1.2 trillion infrastructure package. The Investing in a New Vision for the Environment and Surface Transportation in America Act (or the INVEST in America Act) will allocate US$550 billion ...
The Net-Zero Shift Starts With Low Carbon Aluminium
2020 was supposed to be “year of climate action”, with the Glasgow COP26 acting as a major milestone for both ...
Aluminium at the LME Week – Key Takeaways
Between October 28 and November 1st, London hosted the traditional London Metals Exchange (LME) Week gathering of analysts, brokers, traders ...
Aluminium Market Oversupplied, Demand Growth Flat
Base metals prices reacted positively to the progress registered in the latest round of US – China trade talks in ...
