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United Arab Emirates: Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), the largest industrial company in the United Arab Emirates outside oil and gas, will be an industry partner and participate in the inaugural Global Manufacturing and Industrialisation Summit in Abu Dhabi from 27 – 30 March 2017.
The Summit will be held at Paris-Sorbonne in Abu Dhabi. It is a joint initiative by the UAE Ministry of
Economy and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, and will be co-hosted with the
Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development and under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces.
The Global Manufacturing and Industrialisation Summit is the first global gathering for the manufacturing community, bringing together leaders in business, government and civil society to shape a vision for the sector’s future.
Abdulla Kalban, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of EGA, said: “The aluminium sector is a manufacturing and industrialisation success story for the UAE, and we are pleased that we can share that experience at the Global Manufacturing and Industrialisation Summit and learn from other industrial companies.”
Aluminium is the largest made-in-the-UAE export after oil and gas. In addition about 10 per cent of EGA’s production is supplied to 26 companies that make products from EGA aluminium in the UAE. The aluminium sector is the largest employer amongst the UAE’s energy intensive industries.
EGA has made a significant contribution to the industrialisation and economic diversification of the UAE since 1979, when production began at the then DUBAL smelter in Dubai. Production at Al Taweelah in Abu Dhabi began three decades later.
About EGA
Emirates Global Aluminium is equally-owned by Mubadala Development Company of Abu Dhabi and the Investment Corporation of Dubai.
It is the largest industrial company in the United Arab Emirates outside the oil and gas industry, and the largest company jointly owned by the two Emirates.
EGA’s aluminium is the second largest made-in-the UAE export after oil and gas. EGA has a nameplate production capacity of 2.4 million tonnes of aluminium per year. EGA is the only UAE producer and makes the UAE the fourth largest aluminium producing nation in the world.
EGA has some 300 customers in more than 60 countries. About 80 per cent of EGA’s production is value added products, one of the highest proportions of any aluminium company in the world.
EGA’s aluminium is primarily used in the construction, automotive, packaging, aerospace and electronics industries.
Over 10 per cent of EGA’s production is sold in the UAE to around 26 downstream aluminium companies that make products with EGA’s aluminium. The growing broader aluminium sector in the UAE already employs around 30,000 people, making it the largest employer amongst the UAE’s energy intensive industries.
EGA itself employs around 7,000 of these people including almost 1,200 UAE Nationals.
EGA has focused on technology development for over 25 years. EGA has used its own technology for every expansion since the 1990s. In 2016 EGA became the first UAE industrial company to licence its core industrial process technology internationally.
As a corporate citizen of the UAE, Emirates Global Aluminium aspires in all its operations to be measured amongst the world’s leading metals and mining companies in meeting its environmental and social responsibilities.
In 2017, EGA became the first Middle East headquartered company to join the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative, a global programme to foster greater sustainability and transparency in the aluminium industry.
EGA was formed in 2014 through the merger of Dubai Aluminium and Emirates Aluminium.
DUBAL’s Jebel Ali aluminium smelter began production in 1979. At almost five square kilometres, EGA’s Jebel Ali site is five times bigger than Dubai Mall.
EMAL started production in 2009 and its Al Taweelah aluminium smelter was the largest single-site aluminium smelter in the world when completed. EGA’s Al Taweelah site is five times bigger than Al Maryah Island at six square kilometres.
EGA has its own power stations at both sites, producing electricity to meet its needs. EGA’s electricity generation capacity is 5,450 megawatts, making EGA the third largest electricity generator in the UAE after the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority and the Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority.
EGA also produces water through desalination units at its power plants. In addition to meeting its own water requirements, EGA supplies 1.5 per cent of the water needs of Dubai as well as commercial water customers and bottlers.
Today EGA is expanding upstream and internationally to secure the natural resources the UAE’s aluminium industry needs and create new revenue streams.
EGA’s wholly-owned subsidiary Guinea Alumina Corporation is building a bauxite mine and associated export infrastructure in the Republic of Guinea in West Africa, in the largest greenfield investment in that country in over 40 years.
In the UAE, EGA is building the country’s first alumina refinery at Al Taweelah. The project will reduce the UAE’s dependence on imported alumina and supply 75 per cent of the Al Taweelah smelter’s needs. For more information on EGA please visit www.ega.ae.
Contacts at EGA:
Simon Buerk
sbuerk@ega.ae
056 3111 536
Khadija Al Marzooqi
kalmarzooqi@ega.ae
050 8777 850
Sahar Farhat
sfarhat@ega.ae
050 1213 420
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