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...
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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 agreement will have the two organizations exchanging power in order to improve efficiency. The agreement will allow the parties to schedule exports...
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...
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...
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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 […]
Aluminium Bahrain Commissions Forced Cooling Network Project At Potlines 4 and 5
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) kicked off 2023 this week by launching its Forced Cooling Network (FCN) Project at Potlines 4 and 5 earlier this week. The project will boost the amperage at Potlines 4 and 5 to 410 kA, which is expected to translate to an increase in production capacity of around 17 thousand metric […]
Aluminium Bahrain Awards Contract For Installation Of 9 Acres Of Solar Panels At Solar Farm Project
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) said this week that it has signed a contract with Advanced United Systems (AUS) to install about 9 acres of Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Panels at its Solar Farm Project. The Solar Farm Project will consist of about 11,300 solar panels mounted atop parking facilities and certain facilities at Alba’s plant. The […]
Aluminium Bahrain Inks Service Agreement With Mitsubishi For Maintenance Of New Gas Turbine Power Block
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) has signed a Long-Term Service Agreement (LTSA) with Mitsubishi Power, a power solution brand of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) to handle parts, repairs, and services for Alba’s new 680.9 megawatts (MW) Combined Cycle Gas Turbine Power Block with Mitsubishi Power’s advanced J-series gas turbine technology. Alba’s signing of the agreement […]
Aluminium Bahrain Breaks Ground On New Low-Carbon Power Station
Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C.’s (Alba) chairman attended the First Concrete Pour at the foundation of its new Power Station 5 (PS5) Block 4 Project, which is expected to make a marked positive impact on the aluminium smelter’s greenhouse gas emissions upon completion. In addition to Alba’s Chairman of Board Shaikh Daij, Board member Shaikh Isa bin […]
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 ...
