Construction reaches halfway mark 42 days early, supporting UAE’s sustainability goals.
Emirates Global Aluminium, the largest industrial company in the United Arab Emirates outside oil and gas, today announced that construction of the UAE’s largest aluminum recycling plant has reached 50% completion—42 days ahead of schedule.
Over 1.2 million safe work hours logged
The 170,000-ton-per-year facility is being built next to EGA’s existing smelter in Al Taweelah. So far, more than 1.2 million hours of work have been completed on the project, with zero Lost Time Incidents.
Largest furnace in UAE nearly installed
The largest furnace in the UAE, with a melt rate of 17 tons per hour, is on track to be fully installed in June.
The new plant will process both post-consumer and pre-consumer aluminum scrap into low-carbon, high-quality “premium aluminum” billets, which will be marketed by EGA under the product name RevivAL.
EGA’s RevivAL to boost local circular economy
Most aluminum scrap generated in the UAE is currently exported for processing abroad and is therefore lost to the national economy. Once the recycling facility is complete, EGA expects to become the largest consumer of aluminum scrap in the country.
First hot metal from the Al Taweelah recycling plant is expected in the first half of 2026.
Abdulnasser Bin Kalban, Chief Executive Officer of Emirates Global Aluminium, said:
“Recycling is a key global growth opportunity for our industry and for EGA. We have made decisive steps in developing a global recycling business and here in the UAE with the construction of the recycling plant. The facility will enable us to expand our low-carbon metal portfolio for our local and global customers and is a new milestone for Make it in the Emirates.”
Global demand for recycled aluminum is expected to double by 2040. In 2024, EGA made significant progress in building a global aluminum recycling business with the acquisitions of Leichtmetall, a European specialty foundry, and Spectro Alloys, a leading secondary foundry alloy producer in the United States.
EGA was the first company to produce aluminum commercially using solar power, marketed under the product name CelestiAL. In 2023, EGA expanded its low-carbon metal portfolio by combining solar and recycled aluminum to achieve even lower carbon intensity. This product, CelestiAL-R, is already in use by its first customer, the BMW Group.