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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
- Emirates Global Aluminium’s response to COVID-19
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
- Our approach
- Governance
- Environment
- Social
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
- 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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EGA’s technology solutions
EGA’s Technology Development and Transfer department develops new technologies that further improve the aluminium smelting process; designs, builds and operates pilot reduction cells to test and validates our ideas; and supports the industrialisation of new technologies either at EGA or our technology customers’ smelters.
The team includes 50 dedicated technologists and experts assigned to perform different functions under Technology Development, Technology Transfer and Technology Excellence.
EGA’s Technology Development and Transfer department works closely with local and international universities to combine the latest scientific thinking with our decades of experience in aluminium smelting.
Our academic partnerships in the United Arab Emirates also enable us to contribute to the development of local academic institutions.
EGA’s current collaborations in the UAE include Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi University, UAE university, Heriot Watt University – Dubai, the American University of Sharjah, and Higher Colleges of Technology.
Internationally we have partnered with the University of Auckland, the University of New South Wales, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
EGA hosts graduate students each year from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s David H. Koch School of Chemical Engineering Practice, a programme through which industrial chemists test their latest thinking at industrial sites on practical projects.
EGA is the first Middle East company to participate in the programme, which has a history stretching back over 100 years.
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Our technology legacy
Since 1990, Emirates Global Aluminium’s technology development has more than doubled the size of cell that is technically and commercially viable.
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Continuous improvement
Emirates Global Aluminium has focused on continuous improvement for decades as the foundation of developing and maintaining global competitiveness.
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Our innovative people
Innovation & continuous improvement is one of our values at EGA.
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