EGA plans to build aluminium recycling unit
01 March 2022
Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), the largest industrial company in the UAE outside oil and gas, has announced plans to build its first and the largest aluminium recycling facility in the UAE with a production capacity of 150,000 tonnes per year.
Feasibility studies for the project are under way and production ramp-up could begin in 2024, said the company. The facility will process post-consumer aluminium scrap such as used window frames, as well as pre-consumer aluminium scrap from extrusion production, into low-carbon, high-quality aluminium billets.
Aluminium scrap for the recycling facility will mainly be sourced from the UAE and the wider region. More than half the aluminium scrap generated in the GCC is currently either disposed of or exported.
On the new facility, CEO Abdulnasser Bin Kalban said: “This, our first recycling facility at EGA to produce EternAL, is one of the steps we plan to take to provide low carbon metal for our customers around the world.”
Production of aluminium through recycling requires a fraction of the energy consumed to produce new primary aluminium, with significantly lower greenhouse gas emissions per tonne of production as a result.
The International Aluminium Institute forecasts that recycled aluminium will account for up to 60 per cent of global aluminium supply by 2050.
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