EGA Al Taweelah Site At KEZAD Sustains Significant Damage

(MENAFN- Mid-East Info) United Arab Emirates, March 2026: Emirates Global Aluminium today announced that the
company's Al Taweelah site sustained significant damage during the Iranian missile and drone attacks
at Khalifa Economic Zone Abu Dhabi. Assessment of the damage is ongoing.
A number of EGA employees were injured. None of the injuries are life threatening.
Abdulnasser Bin Kalban, Chief Executive Officer of EGA, said:“The safety and security of our people is
our top priority at EGA at all times. We are deeply saddened and are assessing the damage to our
facilities.”

EGA's Al Taweelah smelter produced 1.6 million tonnes of cast metal in 2025. EGA had substantial
metal stock on the water when the conflict began, and stock on the ground in some overseas locations.

About EGA:
Since 1975, when it was founded as Dubai Aluminium by His Highness Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum,
Emirates Global Aluminium has been innovating aluminium to make modern life possible.
Today EGA is the world's biggest 'premium aluminium' producer and the largest industrial company in the United
Arab Emirates outside the oil and gas industry.
EGA is equally-owned by Mubadala Investment Company of Abu Dhabi and the Investment Corporation of
Dubai. It is the largest company jointly owned by the two Emirates.
EGA is an integrated aluminium producer, with operations from alumina refining to the production of cast primary
aluminium and recycling. EGA operates aluminium smelters in Jebel Ali and Al Taweelah in the United Arab
Emirates, an alumina refinery in Al Taweelah, a speciality foundry in high strength recycled aluminium in
Germany, and a recycling plant in the United States.
EGA's aluminium is the second largest made-in-the UAE export after oil and gas. In 2025, EGA sold 2.84 million
tonnes of cast metal. EGA is the only UAE producer and makes the UAE the fifth largest aluminium producing
nation in the world.
EGA has more than 400 customers in over 50 countries. In 2025, value-added products accounted for 81 per
cent of EGA's cast metal sales.
EGA's aluminium is primarily used in the construction, automotive, packaging, aerospace and electronics
industries.

Around 10 per cent of EGA's aluminium production is sold in the UAE to around 20 downstream aluminium
companies that make products with EGA's aluminium. The growing broader aluminium sector in the UAE
supports more than 56,000 jobs. EGA itself employs over 7,000 of these people including more than 1,300 UAE
Nationals.

EGA has focused on technology development for over 30 years. EGA has used its own technology for every
smelter expansion since the 1990s and has retrofitted all its older production lines. In 2016 EGA became the first
UAE industrial company to licence its core industrial process technology internationally.
As a corporate citizen of the UAE, EGA aspires in all its operations to be measured amongst the world's leading
metals and mining companies in meeting its environmental and social responsibilities. In 2017, EGA became the
first Middle East headquartered company to join the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative, a global programme to
foster greater sustainability and transparency in the aluminium industry. In 2019, EGA's Al Taweelah site became
the first in the Middle East to receive certification from ASI for its sustainability practices and performance. EGA's
Jebel Ali site was certified in 2021. Al Taweelah alumina refinery was certified later in 2023. EGA's German
speciality foundry was certified in 2023, before its acquisition by EGA.

In 2021, EGA began production of CelestiAL solar aluminium, produced with solar power from the Mohammed
Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park on the outskirts of Dubai. EGA is the first company in the world to make
aluminium commercially using the power of the sun.

EGA was formed in 2014 through the merger of Dubai Aluminium and Emirates Aluminium.
EGA's Jebel Ali aluminium smelter began production as DUBAL in 1979. At almost five square kilometres, this
site is five times bigger than Dubai Mall.

EMAL started production in 2009 and its Al Taweelah aluminium smelter was the largest single-site aluminium
smelter in the world when completed. EGA's Al Taweelah site is five times bigger than Al Maryah Island at six
square kilometres.

EGA began production at Al Taweelah alumina refinery in April 2019. EGA's alumina refinery is the first in the
UAE and only the second in the Middle East. The project reduces the UAE's dependence on imported alumina
and supplies over 46 per cent of EGA's needs.

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