EGA waste agreement

Emirates Global Aluminium has signed an agreement with Arkan, a leading building materials company, to supply a waste product from aluminium smelting for use in the manufacturing of cement. EGA will directly supply Arkan with spent pot lining, the used inner lining of reduction cells in which aluminium is smelted.  Globally the aluminium industry produces more than one million tonnes of spent pot lining each year, according to industry experts, much of which is stored indefinitely. EGA has been working since 2010 to find economic uses for spent pot lining. Last year EGA supplied more spent pot lining to cement…