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...
Jebel Ali
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 (MIT) last week. The partnership, which began five years ago, features an eight-week visit by MIT Master’s and Ph.D. students from the...
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,...
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...
Events
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 […]
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 ...
