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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
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
Impact
- Impact
- Driving sustainable economic growth
- Our commercial success
- Making it in the Emirates
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
Innovation
- Innovation
- Our technology legacy
- EGA’s technology solutions
- Continuous improvement
- Our innovative people
Opportunity
- Opportunity
- Our approach
- Emiratisation
- Developing our people
- Supporting education
- Driving diversity
- Careers

About us
About us

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

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 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

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

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

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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Our history

Emirates Global Aluminium is built on the proud heritage of two aluminium pioneers. We have been developing our business for the past four decades, innovating aluminium to make modern life possible for the world, the societies in which we operate, and our people.

1975
1. May
  
  Our founder, the late Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, signs a decree establishing Dubai Aluminium.
1979
1. November
  
  First pot start-up at DUBAL (Potlines 1 to 3)
1990
1. October
  
  Start-up of Potline 4 at DUBAL
1996
1. September
  
  Start-up of Potline 5 at DUBAL
1999
1. May
  
  Start-up of Potline 6 at DUBAL
2003
1. September
  
  Start-up of Potline 9 at DUBAL
2005
1. May
  
  Start-up of Potline 7A at DUBAL
2006
1. June
  
  Start-up of Potline 7b & 9b at DUBAL
2007
1. February
  
  EMAL Phase I announced
2. May
  
  Acquisition of shares in Guinea Alumina Corporation JV
3. July
  
  Start-up of Potline 5B at DUBAL
2008
1. February
  
  Start-up of Potline 8 at DUBAL
2009
1. December
  
  Start of first pot at EMAL (Potlines 1 & 2)
2010
1. December
  
  EMAL Phase I fully commissioned
2011
1. June
  
  EMAL Phase II announced
2013
1. May
  
  EGA acquired 100% share of Guinea Alumina Corporation
2. June
  
  Formation of EGA announced
3. September
  
  Start-up of Potline 3 at EMAL
2014
1. June
  
  Republic of Guinea Parliament ratifies revised Guinea Alumina Corporation Project Scope
2. July
  
  EMAL Phase II fully commissioned
3. September
  
  EGA Board of Directors gives Limited Notice to Proceed with Shaheen Project Phase I
2015
1. March
  
  Al Taweelah Alumina incorporated
2. May
  
  EGA Board of Directors gives Notice to Proceed with Phase I of the Al Taweelah Alumina Refinery Project
2016
1. June
  
  EGA Board of Directors gives Full Notice to Proceed with Guinea Alumina Corporation Project Phase I
2017
1. Feb
  
  EGA becomes first Middle East headquartered company to join the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative
2. October
  
  EGA completes $300 million project to retrofit older production lines with UAE technology
2019
1. April
  
  EGA starts up Al Taweelah alumina refinery, the first in the UAE and only the second in the Middle East
2. May
  
  EGA's Al Taweelah site is certified to the ASI Performance Standard, in first for Middle East
3. August
  
  First bauxite exports from Guinea Alumina Corporation
4. November
  
  EGA celebrates 40 years since the first aluminium was produced in the UAE, by pot 2 in Line 1A at Jebel Ali.
2021
1. January
  
  EGA and Dubai Electricity & Water Authority make the UAE the first country in the world to produce aluminium using the power of the sun
2. August
  
  EGA's Jebel Ali site is certified to the ASI Performance Standard
2022
1. November
  
  EGA reaches 40 million tonnes of hot metal produced since start-up of Jebel Ali in 1979
2023
1. March
  
  EGA's Guinea Alumina Corporation achieves first certification in Guinea to the ASI Performance Standard
2. March
  
  EGA reports best results in its history, with record production across the value chain