Abu Dhabi - Mubasher: Emirates Global Aluminium’s (EGA) Al Taweelah smelter is starting deliveries of molten liquid metal to its customers in Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi (KIZAD) via a dedicated Hot Metal Road.
The project is the first of its kind in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to link separate industrial sites, according to the company’s press release on Tuesday.
The company also revealed that the inaugural hot metal customer is Ducab Aluminium Company which produces aluminium electrical cables.
Receiving aluminium as molten metal eliminates the need for companies like Ducab Aluminium Company to use high energy to re-melt it before use. This saves both costs and environmental emissions, increasing the competitiveness of the growing UAE aluminium fabrication industry.
EGA has developed a dedicated, state-of-the-art liquid metal transfer facility, which is capable of 24-hour operations, it can transfer molten metal via overhead crane to preheated 14.5 tonne crucibles which can keep the metal liquid for up to 18 hours at temperatures of around 780 degrees Celsius, the company said in its statement.
