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Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) has signed a series of agreements with PT Indonesia Asahan Aluminium
(Inalum) to provide technological know-how to upgrade the Indonesian company’s aluminium smelter in North Sumatra.
The signing was part of Indonesia UAE Week, organised by the two countries’ embassies to further deepen economic ties between the UAE and Indonesia.
EGA will provide expertise to upgrade the performance of the Inalum smelter by retrofitting improvements to its existing technology, which was first installed in 1982.
The project, which is expected to take some 18 months to complete, aims to increase production at the North Sumatran smelter by 20,000 tonnes of aluminium per year. EGA has extensive experience in upgrading aluminium smelting technology. The company has completed a series of similar upgrades across its sites in Jebel Ali and Al Taweelah over the past decade.