Cooperation between GCC smelters will cement their position globally as ‘responsible aluminium producers’, Aluminium Bahrain’s (Alba) Chairman of the Board of Directors, Shaikh Daij bin Salman bin Daij Al Khalifa, has said.
Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) CEO Ali Al Baqali on Monday (June 20) kicked-off the company’s plant-wide environment, social and governance (ESG) campaign ‘A Journey, Not A Destination’.
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Alba launches its first ESG campaign
Manama, Bahrain, 3 hours, 47 minutes ago Aluminium Bahrain (Alba), the world’s largest aluminium smelter ex-China, launched today (June 13) its first Environment, Social and Governance campaign ‘Achieving the Balance’ that focusses on Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) matters. With this campaign, Alba joins its peers in the GCC to mark the ESG Week under the umbrella of the Gulf Aluminium Council (GAC). Alba’s ESG campaign ‘Achieving the Balance’ will be held virtually until June 17 and focus on its sustainable initiatives that are aligned with Bahrain’s Economic Vision 2030, Alba said in a statement. Speaking about the ESG Campaign, Alba’s Chief Executive Officer, Ali Al Baqali said: “Global challenges such as Climate Change, Environment Conservation, Clean Energy and Covid-19 pandemic have prompted a sense of urgency to rebalance ESG matters.
GCC aluminium output tops record 6m tonnes
MANAMA, January 20, 2021
By Pummy Kaul The GCC countries have reported a record production of primary aluminium in 2020, surpassing the 6 million tonnes milestone for the first time, in a year which was fraught with challenges and odds. The five primary aluminium producers in the GCC collectively produced 6,115,408 tonnes of high quality primary aluminium in 2020 for the local and international markets, registering an increase of about 6 per cent over the previous year, according to the statistics released by the Gulf Aluminium Council (GAC). The increase of around 353,554 tonnes over the last year (5,771,854 tonnes) is mainly due to the record production achieved by Aluminium Bahrain which ended 2020 by beating its production target of 1,540,000 metric tonnes per annum (mtpa) to top a record of 1,548,500 metric tonnes, the highest-ever achieved in its 50 years of commercial operations.