UAE collaboration delivers first low-carbon aluminium
Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) and the Emirates Nuclear Energy Company (ENEC) have delivered the UAE’s first low-carbon aluminium produced using electricity generated by the Barakah nuclear power plant. The low-carbon aluminium is being marketed under the product brand MinimAL. The first customer for the Emirati product is Egyptian company CANEX Aluminum, who will use it to produce advanced products for infrastructure, solar energy, transportation, and architectural applications.
EGA said the new product positions the UAE as a reliable supplier of low-carbon industrial materials to global markets and expands EGA’s low-carbon metal portfolio. Generating the electricity required for aluminium smelting and production accounts for around 60% of the global aluminium industry’s greenhouse gas emissions, it added.
“Global demand for low carbon aluminium is expected to triple by 2040, and EGA aims to play an important role in this growth,” EGA CEO Abdulnasser Bin Kalban said. “MinimAL is our latest low-carbon product, made possible through the UAE’s investment in nuclear power generation. We are glad to be working with ENEC to supply more low carbon aluminium to the world.”
EGA was the first company globally to produce aluminium using solar power, marketed as CelestiAL. It also produces recycled aluminium, marketed under the product brand RevivAL, at its plants in the USA and Germany, and is currently building the UAE’s largest aluminium recycling plant at Al Taweelah, which is expected to start production in the first half of 2026.
Read the full article by World Nuclear News here.
[Source: EGA]