Alba’s Line 6 takes MEED’s GCC Industrial Project of the Year award

TDT | Manama

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The world’s largest aluminium smelter, Aluminium Bahrain (Alba)’s Line 6 Expansion Project has bagged the GCC Industrial Project of the Year in the 2020 edition of the MEED Projects Awards.

The MEED Projects Awards recognise the best projects in the GCC across various sectors and promotes best practices in project delivery and operations, as well as innovation and sustainability.

Alba’s Line 6 Expansion Project has also been elected as National winner for both Industrial Project of the Year and Mega Project of the Year Awards.

“We are pleased that Alba Line 6 Expansion Project has been the recipient of MEED Industrial Project of 2020 at the GCC level - this truly recognises Alba’s strategic importance as one of the industrial cornerstones of Bahrain as well as its commitment to the Kingdom’s Economic Vision 2030,” Alba’s Chairman of the Board of Directors Shaikh Daij bin Salman bin Daij Al Khalifa said.

Adding further, Alba’s Chief Executive Officer Ali Al Baqali said: “Alba will be closing 2020 as the world’s largest smelter w/o China thanks to Line 6 Expansion Project.

This Landmark Project is a pledge of value creation for all our stakeholders and Bahrain’s society for the generations to come.” Alba’s Line 6 Expansion Project with a CAPEX of c.US$3 billion comprises the construction of Reduction Line 6, Power Station 5 (PS 5) and other industrial facilities.