Since starting production in 1979 Dubai Aluminium ("DUBAL", now an operating subsidiary of Emirates Global Aluminium ("EGA") and described as EGA Jebel Ali) has become one of the world's biggest manufacturers of primary aluminium, with a capability in excess of 1 million tonnes per annum. Together with Emirates Aluminium ("EMAL", another EGA subsidiary described as EGA Al Taweelah), EGA today has a production capability of around 2.4 million tonnes per year, ranking the business among the five largest main aluminium manufacturers in the world.

The largest percentage of EGA's production, totaling up to 45 per-cent of the overall in 2015, is billets for extrusion and forging, which are then even more processed by downstream industry. Extensively acknowledged as the leading producer of billets for extrusion and forging, EGA's metal meets the strictest quality needs-- as confirmed by sections extruded from EGA billets being used in a number of iconic buildings worldwide.

In the business sector of melting, heat treatment and recycling technology of aluminium, HE is today the innovation and market leader. This success in the unique sector of extrusion and forging pre-material production is mostly attributable to the business's partnership with EGA Jebel Ali.

In its search for new and much better systems HE has actually established ingenious and often cutting edge innovations. For these to end up being established on the world market, reference plants were needed for where the technologies' capabilities could be shown on an industrial scale. HE found such a partner in EGA Jebel Ali. For beginners, EGA Jebel Ali which was the first smelter complex in the Middle East to use the totally new HE continuous heating systems for heat treatment (known as homogenisation), together with a 100 per-cent ultrasonic examination system and 2 sawing devices. The HE heat treatment technology yields exceptional material quality, without any internal flaws and with impressive harmony of the buildings over the full length of the extruded sections. Based on this proven success, the HE process is today made use of for around 60 per cent of all billets for extrusion and forging produced worldwide. At present EGA's subsidiaries operate an overall of six homogenizing lines of this type.

Continuous homogenizing technology is not suitable for every function in producing billets for extrusion and forging; and the conventional (batch) method continues to be indispensable. . To achieve the same standards with conventional technology, HE has also developed a new furnace concept. Here again, the cooperation partner was EGA Jebel Ali, which was the first smelter complex to set up and utilize the brand-new technology.

Recalling over the 25 years of partnership in between the two businesses, it is evident that the confident collaboration has added to both rising to the top of their fields-- EGA for its superior quality extrusion billet and HE for the equipment required to process the exact same. Driven by a shared mission for constant improvement, the two partners will rest on the laurels of their accomplishments to date, but instead remain to work together for even greater success.