EGA accomplishes its first run for the UAE industrial technology project export

Emirates Global Aluminium, which is the largest industrial company in the United Arab Emirates outside oil and gas, on 29th December’19, announced the accomplishment of its historic project to export the UAE developed industrial technology, with the statement of performance guarantee tests at Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba).

In the year 2016 in a competitive international tender, EGA won to deliver its aluminium smelting technology to Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba) for a vital expansion project (Line 6 Expansion Project), which is a remarkable breakthrough for the development of a knowledge-based economy in the UAE.

Alba selected EGA’s DX+ Ultra technology for its Potline 6 project. DX+ Ultra which is the 10th generation EGA technology, and is aligned as the most efficient in the world.

His Majesty King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain, on 24th November 2019 inaugurated Potline 6, Alba’s new production facility.

EGA’s technology at Potline 6 has gone through a final performance guarantee test with supreme results as EGA’s commitments under the technology transfer agreement.

The production volume of each reduction cell is 11%, which is higher than what EGA guaranteed, though specific energy consumption, a measurement of the electricity required for the production of each tonne of aluminium, that is 1% better than as promised and it is also significant in the energy-intensive smelting process.

Abdulla Kalban, Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of EGA, said: “The export of EGA’s industrial technology to Alba was historic for our company and the UAE. I congratulate all the EGA’s technologists who have worked to develop our technology over the years and the team that was deployed to help implement it in the Kingdom of Bahrain. We are proud that our technology is performing even better than we promised during the commercial negotiations.”

Ali Al Baqali, Alba’s Acting Chief Executive Officer, said: “We selected EGA’s smelting technology because it was the best in the world for our Potline 6. We are also pleased that the performance of EGA’s technology has exceeded our expectations.”

EGA’s technology operated at 465KA in the performance test at Alba. The consumption of specific energy was 12.87kilowatt-hours per kg of aluminium produced.

EGA delivered experts from its technology development and transfer team and from operations during the construction of Potline 6, which counted to a total of 20 EGA technologists participated in the project as a part of the technology licensing agreement with Alba.

EGA also hosted 21 staff from the maintenance and production units in Alba at its sites in the UAE for hands-on training using EGA’s technology.

EGA’s own aluminium smelting technology in UAE has been developed for more than 25 years. Since the year 1990, EGA has used its technology for every smelter expansion and has retrofitted all its older production lines.

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