The Line 5 Carbon Operations Team celebrated the production of the First Green Anode from the newly completed Paste Plant, marking a significant landmark in the project's overall commissioning phase. Both the production of the first Green Anode and the commissioning of the Paste Plant were successfully completed on time and with safety as one of the main priorities.
The production of the first Green Anode is one of the three main steps in the manufacturing process of anodes which are essential in the production of aluminium. The Carbon Plant's new Paste Plant will produce the Anode quantities required to meet the Line 5 operational demands. An average of 190,000 tonnes of Green Anodes are produced per year.
"We are extremely happy to have produced the first Green Anode as this feat signifies the formal commissioning of Carbon's new Paste Plant which is an integral element to the project's overall aluminium production process" stated Line 5's Carbon Operations and Maintenance Manager, Wajd Almadani. "The Line 5 Carbon Team is also commemorating the safety aspect of this achievement which stands testimony that even under tremendous pressure and activities involving live equipment, project schedules can be achieved in a safe manner."
"We are now working towards the Carbon Plant's second major milestone which is the production of the first Baked Anode."
Solios Carbon is the main contractor for the Carbon Plant and all construction work has been sub-contracted to local contractors.
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Alba - Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C (c) - is a 520,000 tonnes per annum aluminium smelter. As well as its reduction lines and casthouses, the company has a dedicated carbon department and a 1500MW power plant. A 450,000 tonnes per annum coke calcining plant is also in operation at the company's marine terminal. The company was officially opened in 1971 and its shareholders today are the Government of Bahrain (77%), SABIC Industrial Investments (20%) and Breton Investments (3%). The entire plant operates to the Environmental Management System standard ISO14001 and the Casthouses and Marketing are also operating to the ISO 9002 Quality Management System. The company has won a number of awards including the inaugural Shaikh Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa Award for Industrial Excellence, the International Millennium Business Award for Environmental Achievement and a GCC-wide award for Human Resources Development and nationalisation of the workforce.
Alba's Line 5 Expansion, due for completion in February 2005 will expand Alba's annual production by a further 307,000 tonnes per annum, making it the largest smelter in the world outside of eastern Europe. At a total cost of US $ 1.7 billion, the expansion will create an estimated 500 jobs and will include a new power station, carbon, casthouse and other facilities
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