EGA’s Al Taweelah alumina refinery achieves 600,000 tonnes production milestone

Emirates Global Aluminium, the largest industrial company in the United Arab Emirates, announced that its Al Taweelah alumina refinery produced 600,000 tonnes of alumina since operations started in April 2019.

The plant’s average daily production was 88 per cent of Al Taweelah alumina refinery’s nameplate capacity in August.

Al Taweelah alumina refinery is expected to produce more than one million tonnes of alumina by the end of 2019. Once fully-ramped up, the output is projected to reach some two million tonnes of alumina per year.

Abdulla Kalban, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of EGA, said: “Ramping up production at a new alumina refinery is a complex and challenging task, and we have been preparing for the ramp-up of Al Taweelah alumina refinery since before construction began. We have a world-class team operating EGA’s alumina refinery, and they are making great progress on this journey.”

EGA is importing bauxite ore to process at Al Taweelah alumina refinery from the Republic of Guinea. In August, EGA began production at Guinea Alumina Corporation, its bauxite mining project in Guinea. Bauxite from the GAC project is shipped to third party customers around the world.

EGA invested some $3.3 billion to build Al Taweelah alumina refinery. The peak construction workforce was 11,542, from 20 countries. Construction took 72 million hours of work, equivalent to one person working for over 25,000 years.