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EGA signs alumina supply agreement with Alcoa

UAE-based Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) has signed a long-term agreement with New York Stock Exchange-listed aluminium producer Alcoa Corp for smelter-grade alumina. The eight-year agreement, which commences in 2024, will allow EGA to procure as much as 15.6 million tonnes of alumina from Western Australia, the companies said in a joint statement. “Most of our […]

UAE industrial giant pins future on net zero 2050 ambitions

Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) – the UAE’s largest industrial company outside those focused on oil and gas – is pinning its future on the country’s decarbonisation efforts as the global market for aluminium remains under pressure. The company said it is committed to producing aluminium more sustainably and, last year, produced 57,000 tonnes of CelestiAL […]

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Oracle Energy looks to the Gulf after Pakistan hydrogen project

Oracle Energy – a joint venture between UK-listed Oracle Power and an investment vehicle of Dubai royal Sheikh Ahmed Dalmook Al Maktoum – is “open” to developing clean energy projects in the Gulf. With its debut green hydrogen plant planned in Pakistan, Oracle Energy co-founder Naheed Memon told AGBI: “Expanding in the Middle East is […]

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UAE industrial giant to supply solar aluminium for Nissan cars

Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), the largest non-oil and gas industry company in the UAE, has agreed to supply solar power-produced aluminium to Japan to make Nissan cars. The agreement with Kobe Steel will see the supply of EGA’s CelestiAL solar aluminium to one of the largest rolling mills in Japan. Automotive body sheet is used […]

Abdulla Kalban, EGA’s Managing Director, right, welcomes Zhang Yiming, the Chinese ambassador to the company’s Jebel Ali site in Dubai

200 billion reasons why the Gulf is China’s hottest trading partner

When Deng Xiaoping, the former communist leader of China, started his modernisation drive in the late 20th century, he looked to the Middle East as the only place that could provide the enormous quantities of oil and gas that his country required to become a global powerhouse.  By the end of this decade, less than […]

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UAE rallies private sector to realise 2050 net-zero pledge

The UAE has launched its first ‘Climate-Responsible Companies Pledge,’ in a bid to boost the private sector’s role in helping the country achieve its target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050 – dubbed the Net Zero 2050 Strategic Initiative.  More than 21 UAE-based companies have so far signed up to the pledge, unveiled by […]

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UAE’s aluminium drive is out of this world

Aluminium has been a bedrock of the UAE’s economy and its industrial ambitions for years with exports reaching more than 50 countries around the world. Now, Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), the country’s largest industrial company outside oil and gas, is looking to enter the ultimate export market – outer space. The company is in talks […]