UAE to build new aluminium plant

The planned smelter will be the world’s largest at a cost of $8 billion.

world's largest aluminium smelter at a cost of $8 billion uae
The first phase is expected to cost $5 billion [AP]

The first phase is expected to cost $5 billion.
 

Emal will become “the world’s largest single site aluminium smelter” when it reaches its full production capacity of 1.4 million tonnes a year, it said.

  

Dubal, which is owned by the Dubai government, is the Middle East‘s largest aluminium producer with a capacity of 761,000 tonnes a year.

  

In August 2006, it acquired a 25 per cent stake in Canada‘s Global Alumina Corp for $200 million.

  

Mubadala owns a majority stake in Dolphin Energy, which is building a regional network to export gas via a submerged pipeline from Qatar to Abu Dhabi, and then on to Dubai, Oman and eventually Pakistan.

Source: News Agencies