We are Emirates Global Aluminium
Together, innovating aluminium to make modern life possible. Together, innovating aluminium to make modern.
EGA Global Aluminium has focused on continuous improvement for decades as the foundation of developing and maintaining global competitiveness.
Continuous improvement involves everyone at EGA and is an integral part of our corporate culture.
We are in a heavy industry and, like almost everything human beings do, our work impacts the environment and society overall. By cultivating a mindset focused on continuous improvement, we believe we can maximise our positive impact on modern life, in the UAE and beyond.
We think that the people closest to a work process are in an ideal position to identify what improvements are required and create the best solution. Therefore, we have put in place a system to encourage and reward innovative thinking, at all levels of our organisation.
Recycling
Primary aluminium will still be required to meet demand beyond mid-century, but the role of recycled aluminium is expected to grow. We are planning to build our first recycling facility in the UAE, and production ramp-up could begin as early as 2024. We expect to explore further opportunities in recycling in the years ahead.
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Aluminium’s role in achieving net zero
As a material, aluminium has an important role to play in the development of a more sustainable society.
Aluminium is light, strong, durable, electrically and thermally conductive, and formable. These characteristics make our metal the ideal material for many applications that reduce the greenhouse gas emissions intensity of human activity.
In addition, once a product made with aluminium reaches the end of its useful life, the metal is infinitely recyclable. Aluminium made today will be available to future generations for their use, saving natural resources and energy that would otherwise be required to make new material.
In the transport sector, by light-weighting vehicles from electric cars to planes to make them more energy efficient while maintaining their strength and safety. Aluminium is also an important component in mass transit systems, displacing personal transport.
In the construction sector, improving the energy performance of buildings, particularly windows, curtain walls and facades. Increased use of aluminium also means more of a building can be recycled on demolition, reducing the requirement to make new material.
In the energy sector, as a key component of renewable energy technologies (especially solar photovoltaics and wind), energy storage, and the expanded electricity transmission grids required for electrification to displace hydrocarbons.
How our aluminium makes modern life possible.
Our lives would be very different without aluminium. It is thanks to the metal of the future that we live in great cities, can make instant connections and more. At Emirates Global Aluminium, we produce one in every 25 tonnes of aluminium made worldwide.