UAE - Mubasher: Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) has entered into a number of agreements with PT Indonesia Asahan Aluminium (INALUM) to develop the Indonesian company’s aluminium smelter in North Sumatra through its technological know-how.
EGA will take around 18 months to upgrade the performance on the INALUM smelter by improving its existing technology, which was first installed in 1982, according to a press release on Tuesday.
The project aims to raise the production at the North Sumatran smelter by 20,000 tonnes of aluminium per year.
Both companies have also signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a potential cooperation to build a new aluminium smelter in Indonesia, benefitting from EGA’s aluminium smelting technology.
Under the agreement, INALUM seeks to increase the production capacity of aluminium ingot, billet, and foundry alloy which have been exported across the world.
The CEO of EGA, Abdulnasser bin Kalban, said: "EGA’s UAE-developed technology and technological know-how is taking its place amongst the best in the world in terms of efficiency, cost effectiveness and sustainability."
Meanwhile, Kalban remarked: "EGA has also developed significant expertise in retrofitting older technology locally in the UAE as well regionally. This is what our engineers will be doing with INALUM over the next 18 months."
