EGA Begins New Round Of Research Collaboration With MIT
Emirates Global Aluminium PJSC (EGA) began a new phase in its ongoing research partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
Jebel Ali
Cutting Edge Siemens Gas Turbine Installed At EGA Power Project
Emirates Global Aluminium PJSC (EGA) last week announced the successful transport from port and installation of the biggest gas turbine in the United Arab Emirates into its under-construction power block. The firm said in a statement that the Siemens H-class gas turbine...
Pyrotek Aluminium Equipment Plant In Dubai Nears Completion
Washington state aluminium engineering consulting service Pyrotek announced late last week the first phase of construction at its plant in...
EGA Breaks Ground On New Cutting Edge Power Plant At Jebel Ali Aluminium Smelter
The first shovel of earth has been turned in the new power block to be built by Emirates Global Aluminium,...
Events
EGA Inks Deal To Build Desalinization Plant And Energy-Efficient Power Plant At Jebel Ali Aluminium Smelter
UAE aluminium smelter Emirates Global Aluminium PJSC (EGA) announced earlier this week a deal with Mubadala Development Company PJSC and Dubal Holding to develop a high-tech water desalinization plant and power facility at EGA’s Jebel Ali smelter in Dubai. Under the terms of the agreement, Mubadala and Dubal Holding will establish a joint venture to […]
Two Workers Perish At EGA’s Jebel Ali Smelter
Domestic media reported the death of two Emirates Global Aluminium PJSC (EGA) workers at its Jebel Ali smelter on Monday. EGA said two men were carrying out a routine maintenance operation on an industrial furnace when bricks came raining down upon them, plunging them into the smelter and to their deaths. Though emergency response procedures […]
Qatalum Shipping Aluminium Through Kuwait, Oman: Hydro’s Brandtzæg
Qatalum is shipping product via ports in Kuwait and Oman at present, solving at least for the near future the problem with which it suddenly found itself last week after Qatar’s neighbors cut ties with it due to a diplomatic kerfluffle. Yesterday Norsk Hydro’s chief Svein-Richard Brandtzæg elaborated upon plans alluded to late last week […]
Qatalum Identifies New Aluminium Export Route Around Diplomatic Unpleasantness
A spokesman from Norsk Hydro told Reuters yesterday that Qatalum has been successful in its quest to identify new routes for exporting the aluminium it smelts. The unnamed spokesman from Hydro did not specify what those routes were, but he did say that delays in delivery may be in the offing due to the re-routing. […]
Qatalum Racing to Find Alternate Aluminium Shipping Routes in Wake of Regional Diplomatic Crisis
Norsk Hydro told the media yesterday that Qatalum is scrambling to solve the logistical problems with which it has been saddled after Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Egypt cut off all ties with their neighbor Qatar. The tiny peninsular state found itself isolated from its neighbors earlier this week after longstanding issues […]
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 businesses and policymakers to accelerate decarbonization efforts. However, with COVID-19 disrupting lives and economies in an unprecedented manner, countries across the globe ...
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 ...
Aluminium of Greece (AOG): is the Pechiney spirit still alive?
Between September 24-25, FastmarketsMB organized its annual aluminium conference in Athens. A day before the conference, in accordance with an ...
