Alba set to become world’s largest smelter

Manama : Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) will soon become the world’s largest smelter with an annual production capacity of 1.5 million metric tonnes per year, said a top Alba official. 

Speaking during CRU’s 23rd World Aluminium Conference, Chief Executive Officer Tim Murray said he is confident that Alba will “succeed in taking-off Line 6 Expansion Project into reality and deliver the First Hot Metal on 01 January 2019.”

“I am proud to say that in CRU 2019, Alba will be the world’s largest smelter with an annual production capacity of 1.5 million metric tonnes per year,” he
added.  

Alba, according to the Chief Executive officer, is currently the fifth largest smelter in the world. 

This came as the Chief Executive Officer Tim Murray presented Alba’s ‘Line 6 Expansion Project Update’ during a keynote panel on ‘Primary Aluminium’ during the conference held at Jumeirah Carlton Tower, London. The conference that began on Monday concludes
today. 

CRU’s World Aluminium Conference is an annual event that is widely recognised as one of the top industry events, which attracts influential delegates and key decision makers from the global aluminium industry. The event brings together over 200 delegates from around the world such as China, Europe, USA, The Middle East, India, Africa and Australia.