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About us
- About us
- Corporate profile
- Our purpose, mission and values
- Operations
- Corporate governance
- Our leadership
- Our history
- Our value chain
- Our policies and certifications
We are the world’s largest ‘premium aluminium’ producer and the biggest industrial company in the UAE outside oil and gas.
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Products
- Products
- The metal of the future
- How aluminium is made
- Primary aluminium
- Bauxite
- CelestiAL solar aluminium
- Water
- Customer portal
- Marketing contacts and regional offices
Aluminium makes modern life possible, from the smartphone in your hand, to the plane you fly in, to the buildings where you live and work.
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Impact
- Impact
- Driving sustainable economic growth
- Our commercial success
- Making it in the Emirates
Driving sustainable economic growth is one way we make modern life possible for the societies in which we operate. EGA has played a major role in the industrialisation and economic diversification of the UAE for decades, and is making a substantial economic contribution in Guinea.
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Sustainability
- Sustainability
- Embedding sustainability in everything we do
- Net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050
- Governance
- Environment
- Social
- Eliminating the risk of harm
- Our CSR initiatives in the UAE
Aluminium’s use plays an essential role in improving transport efficiencies, reducing energy consumption and global greenhouse gas emissions, improving product longevity and reducing demand on natural resources.
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Innovation
- Innovation
- Our technology legacy
- EGA’s technology solutions
- Continuous improvement
- Our innovative people
For decades, Emirates Global Aluminium has maintained and developed global competitiveness by focusing on innovation and continuous improvement. We have developed our own aluminium smelting technology in the United Arab Emirates for more than 25 years.
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Opportunity
- Opportunity
- Our approach
- Emiratisation
- Developing our people
- Supporting education
- Driving diversity
- Careers
EGA directly and indirectly creates tens of thousands of jobs in the UAE and internationally. We aim to be the industrial employer of choice in the countries where we operate.
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Al Taweelah alumina refinery
Al Taweelah alumina refinery was the first in the United Arab Emirates and only the second in the Middle East. It began production in 2019.
The plant converts bauxite into alumina, the feedstock for aluminium smelters. Al Taweelah alumina refinery meets some 40 per cent of our alumina requirements, securing EGA’s competitive supply of this important raw material.
Al Taweelah alumina refinery is located next to our Al Taweelah smelter. Alumina is transferred to storage and then into the smelter by a system of conveyor belts.
Al Taweelah alumina refinery converts some five million tonnes of bauxite into some two million tonnes of alumina per year.
Temperatures in some parts of the alumina refining process exceed 1,000 degrees Celsius. Pressure in some sections is 100x atmospheric pressure.
Al Taweelah alumina refinery has a sophisticated control room with three times as many instruments as the most advanced airliner.
Millions of tonnes of materials are transported each year at the refinery by an 8,150 metre conveyor.
There are 222 different tanks, with a total volume of 350,000m3 – equivalent volume to 140 Olympic-sized swimming pools.
The plant has some 9,500 separate instruments, enough piping to stretch from Abu Dhabi to Muscat, and enough cabling to stretch from Abu Dhabi to Cairo.
The storage capacity of the bauxite shed at Al Taweelah alumina refinery is 450,000 tonnes – the same weight as the Burj Khalifa.
Al Taweelah alumina refinery delivered a world-class ramp-up, exceeding nameplate capacity just two years after start-up.
The plant is 1.4 square kilometres, big enough for 200 football fields.
Bauxite residue is washed, pressed into a dry cake, and transported to a dedicated area for managed storage. EGA is researching viable uses for this by-product of alumina refining.
