For over 40 years, EGA has played a major role in the industrialisation and economic diversification of the UAE. Our product is the second largest made-in-the UAE export and we are the heart and foundation of the broader UAE aluminium sector.
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.
EGA has focused on innovation for over 25 years. We have used our own technology in every smelter expansion since the 1990s and retrofitted our older production lines. In 2016 we became the first UAE industrial company to licence our process internationally.
Emirates Global Aluminium is an integrated aluminium producer, with operations from bauxite mining to the production of cast primary aluminium.
Our heritage is in aluminium smelting, the midstream of the aluminium value chain. In 2019, we began production at our Guinea Alumina Corporation bauxite mining project in the Republic of Guinea and Al Taweelah alumina refinery in Abu Dhabi. These projects transform us into an integrated global aluminium producer creating value from mine to metal.
Bauxite is the ore from which aluminium is derived. Bauxite ore is refined into alumina, a white powder which is the feedstock for aluminium smelters. Smelting produces liquid aluminium, which is cast into the wide range of primary aluminium products which we supply. Our customers are mostly semi-fabricators that are part of the supply chains of end user industries from aerospace to construction.