UAE aluminium producer takes aim at silicon metal market

• Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), among the globe's largest vendors of aluminium, is to go into the silicon metal market with a solar energy plant in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

EGA said it meant to bring on the internet its very first silicon metal center in the country as early as following year,

Abdulnasser Bin Kalban, CEO at EGA, stated: "Creating a silicon metal production facility would certainly secure our supply of a strategic raw material."

Around a quarter of existing manufacturing for EGA is centred on factory alloy, which uses a mix of silicon metal and aluminium, as well as with a concentrate on manufacturing components for the automative industry, the building of a silicon metal plant could be expanded to various other residential sectors, consisting of solar PV.

EGA imports virtually 60,000 thousand tonnes of silicon metal each year, normally from China which is the provider of nearly 70% of the world's silicon metal output

The building and construction of a plant in the UAE might boost a solar PV manufacturing value chain in the nation, while EGA has actually additionally noted the chance for solar PV-powered silicon metal manufacturing to decarbonise a link of the supply chain that is today mostly powered by coal.

This is not the initial project EGA has used solar energy for manufacturing, last year it had actually partnered with UEA utility Dubai Electricity and also Water Authority (DEWA) to be provided 56,000 GWh of solar energy yearly in order to create 40,000 tonnes of aluminium which is being sold under the name CelestiAL.