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Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA)
Largest industrial company in UAE outside oil and gas; 2.6 Mt/year primary aluminum (5-6% global). 100% natural gas powered using cheap byproduct fuel from local oil operations. Rapidly growing; researching 5.4 GW solar + wind + 65 GWh storage path to net-zero. Integrated with Guinea bauxite interests.
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Primary Aluminum Smelting (DUBAL + EMAL)
55%Guinea Bauxite (Guinea Alumina Corporation — GAC)
20%DX Smelting Technology Licensing
8%Alumina Supply & Future Refining
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Did you know2023
Emirates Global Aluminium — best known as a Gulf state aluminum producer — is also one of only four companies globally that owns a complete, licensable aluminum smelting cell technology: EGA's DX Ultra system achieves ~12.9 kWh/kg aluminum energy intensity, near the theoretical minimum, compared to the global average of ~14.5 kWh/kg. Competing cell technology developers are Alcoa (AP technology), Hydro Norsk (HAL technology), and Rio Tinto Alcan (AP300/AP60). EGA has licensed its DX technology to new smelters in Saudi Arabia (Maaden-Alcoa JV), India (NALCO), Egypt, and Nigeria. A UAE state aluminum company built in the oil-era has become a technology licensor teaching the rest of the world's aluminum industry how to smelt metal more efficiently — earning technology license fees from competitors across four continents.
Emirates Global Aluminium ↗Capacity2023
EGA's Guinea Alumina Corporation (GAC) in Boké province, Guinea is the only Gulf state-owned bauxite mine in Guinea — one of the highest-geopolitical-risk but highest-bauxite-reserve countries in the world. EGA's stake in Guinea bauxite diversifies the UAE's supply chain beyond reliance on Chinese and Australian sources. Guinea's 2021 military coup (CNRD) forced EGA, along with all other Guinea mining operators, to renegotiate mine contracts and export terms with the new military government. The same EGA EMAL smelter in Abu Dhabi that produced aluminum for cans of Abu Dhabi is thus directly dependent on bauxite from a coup-governed West African state — an exposure that is structurally similar to China's critical mineral dependencies but less publicly discussed because EGA is a UAE state company rather than a Chinese one.
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