Emirates Global Aluminium boosts US plant capacity to 200,000 tonnes per year with new project.
Emirates Global Aluminium, the largest ‘premium aluminum’ producer in the world, today announced a further expansion of EGA Spectro Alloys in Minnesota in the United States which will take the aluminum recycling plant’s total capacity to 200 thousand tonnes per year.
The new project will add an additional 45 thousand tonnes of annual recycled billet capacity at EGA Spectro Alloys. Construction is expected to be completed during 2027.
EGA Spectro Alloys is currently ramping-up production at the first phase of its expansion, which added 55 thousand tonnes of billet capacity. Construction of the first phase was completed in July this year.
The latest expansion at EGA Spectro Alloys includes an additional scrap melting furnace and a batch homogeniser.
EGA Spectro Alloy’s metal is marketed under EGA’s recycled aluminium product brand RevivAL.
Abdulnasser Bin Kalban, Chief Executive Officer of Emirates Global Aluminium, said: “The next phase of expansion at EGA Spectro Alloys is another important step in growing our production in the United States, where there is strong demand for both primary and recycled EGA-quality metal ‘made in America’.”
Demand for recycled aluminum in the United States is expected to reach some 8 million tonnes per year by 2034, according to CRU, an independent business intelligence organization. The United States is currently the world’s second biggest recycled aluminum market.
In Oklahoma, EGA plans to develop the first new primary aluminium production plant in the United States of America since 1980.
The plant is expected to have a production capacity of at least 600 thousand tonnes of primary aluminum per year, nearly doubling the United States’ current primary aluminum production.